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Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 8:30 am
by forestpixie
⚠️ECONOMIC PACKAGE⚠️

30.000.000 TL (thirty million) will be provided by saving from other budget appropriations in order to be used in the studies to combat the Covid-19 threat.

In all salary payments made by all Public, Institutions and Organizations, Social Insurance Office and all public funds for a period of three months:

• No deduction will be made to the salaries below 5 thousand TL.

• 25% deduction will be made from wages over 5 thousand TL net, however no salary will fall below 5 thousand TL net.

• The highest salary will be adjusted so that nobody will earn more than 8,500 TL.

• During this period, no wages will be deducted from the staff, who are considered active, permanent and essential in state institutions and organisations by the Council of Ministers.

• In the embassies and representations of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a special arrangement will be made with salaries, according to the country they are in and the conditions they have in place.

• Within the scope of saving measures; Additional overtime expenses, additional allowances and contributions will be reorganized with a Legislative Decree that will come into force on 1 April 2020.

• A 25% cut will be made on the condition that the public institutions, municipalities and political parties receiving contributions from the budget will be paid from their contributions in the future.

• The amount of resources allocated to support businesses will be 750 million TL in total.

• In the lease agreements between public, private and legal persons belonging to the workplaces whose activities have been suspended with the decision of the Council of Ministers, if the tenants can not fulfill their lease obligations for April, May 2020, these rent prices, including housing rents, will start in June 2020 and be paid over a 6 month period in equal installments.

• A 10% discount will be applied to the amount paid on the condition that all taxes are paid on time between 31 March 2020 and 30 June 2020.

• The government will cover the cost of bank loan interests for businesses that were forced shut.

• Legal arrangements have been made to allow credit card limits to be increased by 25% without seeking income documents.
• Fuel, food and health expenditures made between March 26, 2020 and April 26, 2020 with a credit card will be postponed for a month without interest.

• The minimum payment amount for Credit Card will be applied as 1% instead of 20% for three months.

• The Turkish lira contractual interest rate to be applied to credit cards has been reduced from 2.35% monthly to 1% and it has been decided not to apply any delay interest for the 3-month period.

• If the electricity bills for March, April and May of 2020 are paid within the normal payment period, a 15% discount will be applied.

• With the decision of the Council of Ministers, 1,500 TL wage support will be provided to the employees of the enterprises whose activities have been suspended, from the Employment Support Fund for April and May 2020, on the condition of the continuity of the enterprises and the continuity of employment. Insured TRNC and TR Citizens will benefit from this practice (in accordance with the bilateral workforce and social security treaty signed between TC-TRNC).

• Social Insurance premiums for March, April and May 2020 of the employees of the enterprises whose activities have been suspended with the decision of the Council of Ministers, if they request; 2021 will be postponed without penalty and interest, and those who want to pay their premiums without delay will receive a 10% discount.

• With the decision of the Council of Ministers, the premiums and deposits of the employees of the enterprises whose activities have been suspended and the premiums and deposits for March, April and May of 2020 and the contribution to domestic employment can be deposited until 31 July 2020.

• Arrangements have been made so that the social insurance premium debts for the period of February 2020, which must be paid on March 20, 2020, to the workplaces registered in the Social Insurance Office, can be paid until 30 March 2020 without delay.

• Cost of cigarettes will be increased by 1 TL per pack.

• There will be an increase to the price of alcohol.

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:03 am
by IPMAN
What an absolute disgrace this is! Unless your a TC or Turkish National of course. How can they ignore 3rd country nationals? Are they left to starve? Needs a major rethink or there will be a lot of people in dire straits over this! They quite happily accept taxes and sigorta payments, but when push comes to shove are hung out to dry. A shambolic decision!

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:09 am
by Mollie the cat
Are you genuinely surprised at anything this government do?

I got slated on here a while ago for saying there are a lot of people leaving this Island, believe me I know lots and I mean lots who have either gone or planning to go. (:())

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:11 am
by forestpixie
It's a real shame, and then there is the comment re African students, just shocking!

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:38 am
by IPMAN
Mollie the cat wrote:
Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:09 am
Are you genuinely surprised at anything this government do
Actually you are right, no I’m not

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:42 am
by Groucho
forestpixie wrote:
Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:11 am
It's a real shame, and then there is the comment re African students, just shocking!
May be the UK should suggest all Turks and TCs in UK will discriminated against in a similar fashion... that might concentrate their minds on pulling back from what everyone can and should see as institutional racism.... pogroms will be next?

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 10:32 am
by Brazen
forestpixie wrote:
Thu 26 Mar 2020 9:11 am
It's a real shame, and then there is the comment re African students, just shocking!
What comment.?

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 10:49 am
by forestpixie

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 11:01 am
by erol
Limiting assistance packages to only nationals and TR nationals and not all those who are legally employed and have been paying social insurance payments to date is disgraceful if this is how it ends up being implemented. I have never been an advocate of simplistic 'charity begins at home' arguments.

The degree to which it is disgraceful is considerably less imo than the reported statements made by Ersin Tatar in regards to African Students. Disgusting at an entirely greater degree imo.

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 11:14 am
by Brazen
Thanks for link

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 11:16 am
by forestpixie
Just an awful thing to say, I used to teach here and my African students were great, so very respectful and hard working.

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 11:58 am
by Groucho
erol wrote:
Thu 26 Mar 2020 11:01 am
Limiting assistance packages to only nationals and TR nationals and not all those who are legally employed and have been paying social insurance payments to date is disgraceful if this is how it ends up being implemented. I have never been an advocate of simplistic 'charity begins at home' arguments.

The degree to which it is disgraceful is considerably less imo than the reported statements made by Ersin Tatar in regards to African Students. Disgusting at an entirely greater degree imo.
I totally agree... the man's a disgrace..

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 12:00 pm
by Mollie the cat
He should hang his head in shame, just typical of the half wits that run this country. (:Z)(

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 12:33 pm
by techtrader
And that package tells you everything you needed to know about investing as a foreigner over here contributing to 'their' economy and your chances of getting anything from 'their' Court system !!

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 12:34 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
If someone has paid their social insurance payments and contributed then the deserve to receive in times of need.
I'm a great believer in looking after your own but as a part of being fair.
This isn't fair

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2020 1:11 pm
by gates
I di when i had to have a hip replacement because fell off a wall got sick pay and they did my hip at the Girne state hospital free just paid for blood and tabs very good service and no problem . I was off for about 6 months and received in excess of 10,000tl . But i have a business permit . I have not tried to get anything yet but i dont think so buy this funny how got it then but not now

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Sun 29 Mar 2020 8:13 pm
by Reyntj
I have been told that as well as excluding non citizens it also excludes the casino and hotel sector! So if you work in that sector even if you are a citizen you get zilch. Quite unbelievable.

Unfortunately it just shows just how little money the state has . Literally they are robbing peter to pay paul but janet gets naff all

Just to put things in context the eu have granted 700 million euro in aid to south cyprus . IN comparison north cyprus has received just 5 million from the eu and 10 million euro from turkey .

Re: Emergency Package announced

Posted: Mon 30 Mar 2020 4:06 pm
by snd1966
I maybe reading and understanding this completely incorrectly

His comment on the students I thought it meant the Universities took a fee from students therefore they must be responsible for them.
Private companies - I assume the Company which is generally somewhere along the line owned by a national it will be for them to submit a claim and then look after their employees.
People here without permission working without a permit, as stated 'Financial assistance cannot be given to third-country nationals working in North Cyprus because it is not known who they are' therefore if one employs someone without a permit it will depend on the employer.
Seeing how people in a so called civilised country have let their staff go with a months notice I can understand why any aid they are receiving here will be looking after their own and the people from the country that supplied the aid.
As a foreign worker with a provident fund and signorta, I hope I would be ahead of a person without a permit .