site.btaParliamentary Budget and Finance Committee Approves Draft Revision of 2021 National Health Insurance Fund Budget on First Reading
SC 14:51:01 24-08-2021
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108 POLITICS - PARLIAMENT - BUDGET REVISION
Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee
Approves Draft Revision of 2021 National
Health Insurance Fund Budget on First Reading
Sofia, August 24 (BTA) - The National Assembly Budget and Finance Committee approved on first reading a government-proposed draft revision of the 2021 budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).
As revised, the NHIF revenues and expenditures amount to 5.5 billion leva.
The NHIF spent 442 million leva on combating the pandemic in January-July 2021, Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov said at the Committee meeting. The Finance Ministry added that a total of 3 billion leva are planned in expenditures on tackling the pandemic this year, including financial support for suspended businesses, employment retention, and a 50 leva monthly supplement to all pensions.
The Budget and Finance Committee opened a first reading debate on a government-proposed draft revision of the 2021 public social insurance budget, tabled in late July. According to the draft, public social insurance revenues and transfers will total 15,194,455,500 leva.
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Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Kornelia Ninova has invited There Is Such a People, Democratic Bulgaria and Rise Up BG! Here We Come! to "serious and responsible talks on the budget revision," the BSP said in a press release on Tuesday.
Ninova calls on the three parliamentary entities "to abandon partisan jealousy and claims to leadership and come to terms on an increase of incomes, including a recalculation of pensions, on procuring the medicines that hospitals need and remunerating the labour of front-line medics, on compensating the economy, employed and self-employed persons, and on assisting the Interior Ministry and Defence Ministry personnel to prevent an influx of illegal migrants across the border." RY/LG
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LG1449.108
108 POLITICS - PARLIAMENT - BUDGET REVISION
Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee
Approves Draft Revision of 2021 National
Health Insurance Fund Budget on First Reading
Sofia, August 24 (BTA) - The National Assembly Budget and Finance Committee approved on first reading a government-proposed draft revision of the 2021 budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).
As revised, the NHIF revenues and expenditures amount to 5.5 billion leva.
The NHIF spent 442 million leva on combating the pandemic in January-July 2021, Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov said at the Committee meeting. The Finance Ministry added that a total of 3 billion leva are planned in expenditures on tackling the pandemic this year, including financial support for suspended businesses, employment retention, and a 50 leva monthly supplement to all pensions.
The Budget and Finance Committee opened a first reading debate on a government-proposed draft revision of the 2021 public social insurance budget, tabled in late July. According to the draft, public social insurance revenues and transfers will total 15,194,455,500 leva.
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Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Kornelia Ninova has invited There Is Such a People, Democratic Bulgaria and Rise Up BG! Here We Come! to "serious and responsible talks on the budget revision," the BSP said in a press release on Tuesday.
Ninova calls on the three parliamentary entities "to abandon partisan jealousy and claims to leadership and come to terms on an increase of incomes, including a recalculation of pensions, on procuring the medicines that hospitals need and remunerating the labour of front-line medics, on compensating the economy, employed and self-employed persons, and on assisting the Interior Ministry and Defence Ministry personnel to prevent an influx of illegal migrants across the border." RY/LG
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