Draft Ministerial Regulation Stipulating Rules, Procedures, Durations and Rates of Compensation for Elder Benefits during the Reduction of Rate of Contribution Period (No. ..) B.E. ….

The Cabinet, on 5 April 2022, approved in principle of the Draft Ministerial Regulation Stipulating Rules, Procedures, Durations and Rates of Compensation for Elder Benefits during the Reduction of Rate of contribution Period (No. ..) B.E. …. (“Ministerial Regulation”) as proposed by the Ministry of Labor.

Due to the 3-month reduction of contribution rate measure causing some insurers receive a reduced old age pension based on the amount of contribution into the fund, the Ministry of Labor then proposed for enforcing of the Ministerial Regulation to help such insurers. he main points of this Ministerial Regulation are as follows:

• This Ministerial Regulation shall be effective from 1 May 2022 onwards.
• The payment of old age pension to insurers who contribute to the fund during the reduction of contribution rate from 1 May 2022 – 31 July 2022 shall be calculated from additional 2.95% of wages of insurers from 1 May 2022 – 31 July 2022 in order to additionally pay the old age pension from the rate stipulated in Article 6 (2) of the Ministerial Regulations Stipulating Rules, Procedures, Durations and Rates of Compensation for Elder Benefits B.E. 2550 (2007).

The Ministry of Labor has issued the measures to alleviate suffering of insurers affected during the reduction of contribution rate causing some insurers receive less old age pension. The old age pension shall be paid to the insurers who contributed   into the fund during the reduction of the contribution rate, from May – July 2022, calculated from the additional 2.95% of the insurers’ wages. Such increased payment of pension is from budget of the Social Security Fund.