Social Insurance Code

Social Insurance Code (Title amended, SG No. 67/2003)
Promulgated, State Gazette No. 110/17.12.1999, effective 1.01.2000;
Judgment No. 5 of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria
dated 29.06.2000 - SG No. 55/7.07.2000; amended and supplemented, SG No.
64/4.08.2000, amended, SG No. 1/2.01.2001, supplemented, SG No.
35/10.04.2001, amended, SG No. 41/24.04.2001, amended and supplemented, SG
No. 1/4.01.2002, effective 1.01.2002, amended, SG No. 10/29.01.2002,
effective 1.01.2002, amended and supplemented, SG No. 45/30.04.2002,
effective 30.04.2002, SG No. 74/30.07.2002, effective 1.01.2003,
supplemented, SG No. 112/29.11.2002, amended and supplemented, SG No.
119/27.12.2002, effective 1.01.2003, supplemented, SG No. 120/29.12.2002,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 8/28.01.2003, effective 1.03.2003,
supplemented, SG No. 42/9.05.2003, amended and supplemented, SG No.
67/29.07.2003, supplemented, SG No. 95/28.10.2003, amended and
supplemented, SG No. 112/23.12.2003, effective 1.01.2004, amended, SG No.
114/30.12.2003, amended and supplemented, SG No. 12/13.02.2004, amended, SG
No. 21/16.03.2004, effective 1.01.2004, supplemented, SG No. 38/11.05.2004,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 52/18.06.2004, effective 1.08.2004, SG No.
53/22.06.2004, effective 1.01.2005, SG No. 69/6.08.2004, effective
1.07.2004, SG No. 70/10.08.2004, effective 1.01.2005, amended and
supplemented, SG No. 112/23.12.2004, effective 1.01.2005, amended, SG No.
115/30.12.2004, effective 1.01.2005, amended and supplemented, SG No.
38/3.05.2005, amended, SG No. 39/10.05.2005, effective 11.02.2006, SG No.
76/20.09.2005, effective 1.01.2007, SG No. 102/20.12.2005, effective
20.12.2005, amended and supplemented, SG No. 103/23.12.2005, effective
1.01.2006, SG No. 104/27.12.2005, effective 1.01.2006, SG No.
105/29.12.2005, effective 1.01.2006, amended and supplemented, SG No.
17/24.02.2006, amended, SG No. 30/11.04.2006, effective 12.07/2006, SG No.
34/25.04.2006, effective 1.07.2008 (*), amended and supplemented, SG No.
56/11.07.2006, effective as from the date of entry into force of the Treaty
concerning the Accession of the Republic of Bulgaria to the European Union,
SG No. 57/14.07.2006, effective 1.07.2006, SG No. 59/21.07.2006, effective
as from the date of entry into force of the Treaty concerning the Accession
of the Republic of Bulgaria to the European Union - 1.01.2007, SG No.
68/22.08.2006; corrected, SG No. 76/15.09.2006 (*), amended, SG No.
80/3.10.2006, effective 3.10.2006, SG No. 82/10.10.2006, SG No.
95/24.11.2006, effective 1.01.2007, supplemented, SG No. 102/19.12.2006,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 105/22.12.2006, effective 1.01.2007, SG
No. 41/22.05.2007, amended, SG No. 52/29.06.2007, effective 1.11.2007 (*),
SG No. 53/30.06.2007, effective 30.06.2007, SG No. 64/7.08.2007, SG No.
77/25.09.2007, effective 1.10.2007, supplemented, SG No. 97/23.11.2007, SG
No. 100/30.11.2007, effective 20.12.2007, amended and supplemented, SG No.
109/20.12.2007, effective 1.01.2008, SG No. 113/28.12.2007, effective
1.01.2008, amended, SG No. 33/28.03.2008, amended and supplemented, SG No.
43/29.04.2008, effective 1.01.2008, SG No. 67/29.07.2008, supplemented, SG
No. 69/5.08.2008, amended, SG No. 89/14.10.2008, SG No. 102/28.11.2008,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 109/23.12.2008, effective 1.01.2009,
amended, SG No. 23/27.03.2009, effective 1.04.2009, supplemented, SG No.
25/3.04.2009, effective 1.06.2009, amended and supplemented, SG No.
35/12.05.2009, effective 12.05.2009, SG No. 41/2.06.2009, effective
2.06.2009, supplemented, SG No. 42/5.06.2009, amended, SG No.
93/24.11.2009, effective 25.12.2009, SG No. 95/01.12.2009, effective
1.01.2010, amended and supplemented, SG No. 99/15.12.2009, effective
1.01.2010, supplemented, SG No. 103/29.12.2009, effective 29.12.2009,
amended, SG No. 16/26.02.2010, effective 26.02.2010, amended and
supplemented, SG No. 19/19.03.2010, SG No. 43/8.06.2010, SG No.
49/29.06.2010, effective 1.07.2010, supplemented, SG No. 58/30.07.2010,
effective 30.07.2010, amended and supplemented, SG No. 59/31.07.2010,
effective 31.07.2010, amended, SG No. 88/9.11.2010, effective 1.01.2011, SG
No. 97/10.12.2010, effective 10.12.2010, SG No. 98/14.12.2010, effective
1.01.2011, amended and supplemented, SG No. 100/21.12.2010, effective
1.01.2011; Judgment No. 7/31.05.2011 of the Constitutional Court of the
Republic of Bulgaria - SG No. 45/14.06.2011; amended and supplemented, SG
No. 60/5.08.2011, effective 5.08.2011, amended, SG No. 77/4.10.2011,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 100/20.12.2011, effective 1.01.2012,
supplemented, SG No. 7/24.01.2012, amended and supplemented, SG No.
21/13.03.2012, SG No. 38/18.05.2012, effective 1.07.2012, amended, SG No.
40/29.05.2012, supplemented, SG No. 44/12.06.2012, effective 1.07.2012,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 58/31.07.2012, effective 1.08.2012, SG No.
81/23.10.2012, effective 1.09.2012, SG No. 89/13.11.2012, effective
1.01.2013, SG No. 94/30.11.2012, effective 1.01.2013, SG No. 99/14.12.2012,
effective 1.01.2013, SG No. 15/15.02.2013, effective 1.01.2014, SG No.
20/28.02.2013, supplemented, SG No. 70/9.08.2013, effective 9.08.2013,
amended, SG No. 98/12.11.2013, effective 1.12.2013, supplemented, SG No.
104/3.12.2013, effective 1.01.2014, amended and supplemented, SG No.
106/10.12.2013, effective 1.01.2014, SG No. 109/20.12.2013, effective
20.12.2013, amended, SG No. 111/27.12.2013, effective 1.01.2014, amended
and supplemented, SG No. 1/3.01.2014, effective 1.01.2014, amended, SG No.
18/4.03.2014, effective 4.03.2014, SG No. 27/25.03.2014, effective
1.01.2014, SG No. 35/22.04.2014, SG No. 53/27.06.2014, amended and
supplemented, SG No. 107/24.12.2014, effective 1.01.2015, amended, SG No.
12/13.02.2015, SG No. 14/20.02.2015, amended and supplemented, SG No.
22/24.03.2015, effective 24.03.2015, SG No. 54/17.07.2015, effective
17.07.2015, SG No. 61/11.08.2015, effective 1.01.2016, SG No.
79/13.10.2015, effective 1.11.2015, amended, SG No. 95/8.12.2015, effective
1.01.2016, amended and supplemented, SG No. 98/15.12.2015, effective
1.01.2016, amended, SG No. 102/29.12.2015, effective 1.01.2016, SG No.
62/9.08.2016, effective 9.08.2016, amended and supplemented, SG No.
95/29.11.2016, SG No. 98/9.12.2016, effective 1.01.2017, SG No.
105/30.12.2016, effective 30.12.2016, supplemented, SG No. 62/1.08.2017,
amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/17.11.2017, SG No. 99/12.12.2017,
effective 1.01.2018
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Subject
Article 1. (Supplemented, SG No. 1/2002, amended, SG No. 67/2003) This
Code shall regulate the social relations concerning:
1. public social insurance against common disease, employment injury,
occupational disease, maternity, unemployment, old age and death;
2. supplementary social insurance, which includes:
(a) supplementary compulsory retirement insurance against old age and
death;
(b) (amended, SG No. 56/2006) supplementary voluntary retirement
insurance in funds for supplementary voluntary retirement insurance against
old age, disablement and death and in funds for supplementary voluntary
retirement insurance under occupational schemes against old age;
(c) supplementary voluntary unemployment and/or vocational-training
insurance.
PART ONE
PUBLIC SOCIAL INSURANCE
(Heading amended, SG No. 67/2003)
Chapter One
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Scope of Social Insurance
Article 2. (1) (Previous text of Article 2, SG No. 109/2008, effective
1.01.2009) Public social insurance shall provide benefits, allowances and
pensions for:
1. temporary disability;
2. temporarily reduced working capacity;
3. disablement;
4. maternity;
5. (new, SG No. 1/2002) unemployment;
6. (renumbered from Item 5, SG No. 1/2002) old age;
7. (renumbered from Item 6, SG No. 1/2002) death.
(2) (New, SG No. 109/2008, effective 1.01.2009) Those who are subject
to public social insurance shall insure themselves in:
1. the Common Disease and Maternity Fund - in respect of common disease
and maternity, which shall include insurance regarding temporary incapacity
to work, temporarily reduced working capacity or maternity;
2. the Pensions Fund - against disability due to common disease, old
age or death;
3. (new, SG No. 61/2015, effective 1.01.2016) the Article 69 Persons'
Pension Fund against disability due to common disease, old age or death;
4. (renumbered from Item 3, SG No. 61/2015, effective 1.01.2016) the
Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases Fund - against industrial
accidents or occupational diseases, which shall include disability, death,
temporary incapacity to work and temporarily reduced working capacity due
to an industrial accident or an occupational disease;
5. (renumbered from Item 4, SG No. 61/2015, effective 1.01.2016) the
Unemployment Fund - against unemployment.
(3) (New, SG No. 109/2008, effective 1.01.2009, amended and
supplemented, SG No. 61/2015, effective 1.01.2016) Regarding persons
insured under Article 4(1), the amounts of insurance contributions to be
made shall be those specified for the Common Disease and Maternity Fund,
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