Moldovan MPs pass social insurances budget, mandatory health insurances account law for 2016 in final reading

Chisinau, 1 July /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament adopted the state social insurances budget law and the mandatory health insurances accounts law for 2016 in final reading today.      

The state social insurances budget law for 2016 provides for 14, 945, 684.3 thousand lei in revenues, up by 11.3 per cent against the budget filled for 2015, and 14, 976, 094. 8 thousand lei in spending.  

The transfers from the state budget to the state social insurances budget will amount to 4.73 billion lei, which is by 14.1 per cent more against the sum fulfilled in 2015. As much as 1.14 billion lei was provided to cover the insufficiency of one’s own revenues of the 2016 state social insurances budget.

The Labour, Social Protection and Family Ministry noted that “the spending of the state social insurances budget for the last years have been on continuous rise and this tendency is maintained in 2016 as well, the Labour Ministry, Social Protection and Family Ministry said. This year, the expenses are planned to increase by 11.2 per cent against the ones carried out for 2015.”

At the same time, the mandatory health insurances accounts for 2016 will stand at 5, 838, 515. 5 thousand lei. As compared to 2015, the revenues of the mandatory health insurances accounts are scheduled to increase by 13.1 per cent and the spending – by 11 per cent. When working out the draft law, decision-takers took into account an average monthly nominal salary of 5,050 lei for 2016, a labour remuneration account of 36.2 billion lei, an inflation rate of 10.5 per cent, a Gross Domestic Product of 133.5 billion lei.    

The mandatory health insurance premium in form of percentage contribution was maintained at the level of 2015, 9 per cent, of which 4.5 is paid by the employer and 4.5 per cent – by the employee. The mandatory health insurance premium in form of fixed sum will stand at 4,056 lei in 2016. The revenues from the mandatory health insurance premiums for 2016 will account for 55.8 per cent of all the revenues of the mandatory health insurances accounts.  

The draft sees a 50-per cent increase in spending for compensated medication, rise in the volume of services for dialysis, additional means for purchasing costly consumables and extending other services incorporated in the one-off programme.

Also today, the parliament adopted the state budget law for 2016 in final reading.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor L. Alcaza)