HIF: Interior Ministry Employees Without Health Insurance Due to Unpaid Contributions

Employees of the Ministry of Interior have been left without health insurance because contributions have not been paid for their colleagues who were reinstated through court rulings, according to the Health Insurance Fund (HIF).

In a statement to “Sloboden Peçat,” the HIF explained that the situation was not related to a technical fault or an outage in the Fund’s system. According to the Fund, health insurance is activated automatically as soon as the paid contributions are recorded in the system.

Records show that the Ministry of Interior registered employees who had returned to their positions on the basis of court rulings. However, for some of them, there is no record of the corresponding health insurance contributions having been paid for the period for which they are currently registered.

The Fund stressed that this is a system-defined mechanism that applies equally to all legal entities in the country. Employee registration and the calculation and payment of contributions are processed through the Public Revenue Office’s contribution collection system, while the HIF records insurance status based on data concerning completed payments.

When employees are retroactively added to a legal entity’s records for an earlier period, the payroll calculation for the relevant period must be corrected and contributions must be paid for the added individuals. Once the payment is recorded, health insurance is activated automatically.

According to the HIF, this does not constitute an individual administrative decision by the Fund, nor does it involve its employees manually removing insured individuals. The procedure is carried out systematically and automatically, and the rules apply without exception to every employer and institution.