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Work 4 hours a week and don't be labelled as “social parasite”?

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Work 4 hours a week and don't be labelled as “social parasite”?
Photo: Euroradio

Journalists found new ways to avoid the new tax.

According to ordinance No.3, people must work more than 183 days a year. A citizen is considered to be a “contributor to state financing” regardless of the work scheme – he may work full time or part time. The main thing is that your job should be recorded in your employment book, Euroradio informs.

Can one work four hours a week under the employment agreement and not pay the “scrounger” tax?

The press service of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection says it is possible: the time of work does not influence a worker's status. If one works, he cannot be considered to be a “social parasite”.

“A citizen is considered to be a participant of the financing of public spending if he works under the employment agreement (contract). Nothing is said about the number of hours he works and his minimum or maximum wages,” the ministry explains.

Another way of getting rid of the status of a “social parasite” is caring for a person with class 1 disability or an old person over 80 years old. If the state pays financial aid, it makes the caregiver a participant of state funding.

Caregivers receive financial aid of 100% of the maximum possible size of the average minimum wage per capita, which is 1,428,100 rubles. Those who take care for two or more disabled persons will receive 120% of the minimum wage.

A representative of Minsk's Kastrychnitski district department of the Social Protection Fund says caregivers can receive this kind of aid if they don't work, are not registered as self-employed businessmen or as unemployed, are not students and pensioners and don't receive allowance from Belgosstrakh insurance company.

“But this kind of work cannot be a part of your pensionable service. It is only a part of your total years of service. The pensionable service includes only the years when insurance contributions are paid,” a representative of the Social Protection Fund says.

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