The Social Insurance Premium Incentive of the Act No. 6111, is one of the most important social insurance premium incentives applied in Turkey. The incentive has started to be implemented in the year 2011 in order to increase the participation and employment of women, youth and people with vocational training in the workforce, to encourage the creation of new employment, to encourage vocational and technical education, and to increase the employee’s quality and effectiveness.
The incentive in question is implemented with the Provisional Article 10 added to the Act No. 4447 and with the Article 74 of the Act No. 6111 adopted on 13.02.2011. Recently, the implementation of the incentive is being extended three years till to the end of the year 2026.
Conditions for Benefiting form Incentive No. 06111
It would be correct to evaluate the conditions required to benefit from the Additional Employment Incentive of the Act No. 6111, both for the employer and for the insured.
Benefit conditions for the employer are as follows:
- The Concise and Premium Service Statement must be submitted to the Social Security Institution within the legal period.
- Premiums must be paid within the statutory period.
- Unregistered insured should not be employed in the workplace.
- The employer should not owe premiums, administrative fines, and related late fees and penalties.
- If the employer has debts to the Social Security Institution, these debts must be structured or committed to be paid in installments.
- The duration of benefiting from the incentive varies according to men and women, documents held and age of the insured.
The conditions for the benefiting from the incentive for the insured person are as follows:
- The insured must have been employed between 01/03/2011 and 31/12/2023.
- The insured must be over 18 years old.
- The insured should not be employed as unregistered.
- The recruited insured must be unemployed in the 6-month period preceding the date of employment.
- The insured should be employed as an addition to the average insured number of the workplace (within the last six months period).
While the condition of being older than 18 years of age is primarily sought for female insured persons, the age requirement of 18-29 is sought for male insured persons who will benefit from the incentive. Although there is no requirement to be registered with the Turkish Employment Agency for male insured persons over the age of 29, there is an additional 6 months incentive opportunity for this insured if he is registered.
