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One of the social insurance branches provided by the Turkish Social Security System is the General Healthcare Insurance. General Healthcare Insurance refers to social insurance that primarily aims to protect individuals’ health and, in case of encountering health risks, provides financing for the resulting expenses. With the General Healthcare Insurance, regardless of individuals’ economic power and...

Optional social insurance is one of the applications provided by the Turkish Social Security Regime for Turkish citizens. From Turkish citizens, those residing in Turkey and those residing in countries where social security agreements have not been signed with Turkey can become “optionally social insured” as fulfilling the following conditions: To be18 years of age...

Old age, as an extension of adulthood, is defined as a phase in which intense physical and psychological changes occur in the later period of life. The World Health Organization considers individuals aged 65 and over to be elderly. However, this only defines the limit of chronological age. The aging that occurs in tissues and...

One of the main responsibilities of employers in accordance with the Turkish Social Security Law, is to pay social insurance premiums to the Social Security Institution. Accordingly, employers who employ insured people within the scope of the subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of the Article 4 of the Act No. 5510, shall deduct the...

One of the obligations imposed on employers within the scope of the Turkish Social Security System is the obligation to keep books, records and documents belonging to workplaces and to submit them to authorized public officials if necessary. Within the scope of the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Act No. 5510, employers and business...

Survivors’ Pension is one of the social insurance allocation provided to insured in the Turkish Social Security Regime. Survivors’ Pension is being provided by the Social Security Institution of Turkey in line with the provisions of the Social Insurance and General Healthcare Insurance Act No. 5510.   What are the Eligibility Conditions for Survivors’ Pension?...

Maternity service borrowing is one of the rights provided by the Turkish Social Insurance Law for the female insured. Maternity service barrowing allows women to include the periods when they cannot work due to giving birth to the retirement payment days by borrowing service from the Social Security Institution (SSI). In this way, female employees...

The concept of “employer’s representative” constitutes utmost importance within the scope of Turkish Social Insurance Law. The concept is being defined in the Social Insurance and General Healthcare Insurance Act No. 5510. In this regard, the person who performs the task of managing the entirty of the work or the service on behalf and on...

The concept of “subcontractor” constitutes utmost importance within the scope of Turkish Social Insurance Law. The concept is being defined in the Social Insurance and General Healthcare Insurance Act No. 5510. In this regard, a subcontractor is a third party that receives work from an employer in a job related to the production of goods...

Funeral allowance is one of the rights provided to the insured within the Turkish Social Security System. As provisioned by the Act No. 5510, the funeral allowance is a one-time aid provided to the family of the deceased insured, based on the tariff determined by the Social Security Institution’s Board of Directors and approved by...