National Bank of Kazakhstan

05/13/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/14/2021 05:14

It is now possible to formalize maternity benefits via SMS in Kazakhstan

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan has launched a new function on the portal of the Electronic Labor Exchange (hereinafter - ELE), which allows proactively assigning social payments in case of loss of income due to pregnancy and childbirth, Kazpravda.kz reports with reference to the press service of the ministry.

It is reported that since May, on the ELE, employers of Kazakhstan have been given the opportunity to register in the Unified system for recording labor agreements of social maternity leaves. Due to this, the assignment of an appropriate social benefit for those who received maternity leaves can be carried out in a proactive format, that is, without the participation of the applicant. This will allow service recipients not to go to the Public Service Center in person to apply for this benefit.

«To proactively assign payments to an employee who has taken social maternity leave, the employer must register the fact of the employee's leave in the personal account on the ELE portal. The data will be sent to the Unified system for recording labor agreements, then, upon request, they will be submitted to the NJSC State Corporation «Government for Citizens» for appointment of social benefits. The service recipient will receive a request via SMS to obtain consent for appointment of social payments in a proactive format, which will need to be answered within three days,» the ministry said.

Source: Казахстанская правда