GRSIA Set To Enforce Social Security Law Starting January 3

Doha: The General Retirement and Social Insurance Authority (GRSIA) is set to enforce the Law No. 1 of 2022, by issuing the Social Security Law starting from January 3, 2023.

The authority is enforcing the law after it issued circulars to employers both in the public and private sectors to finalise the training operations for their employees and update their systems in conformity with the new law.

Meanwhile, GRSIA has updated all its electronic and service systems; such as the electronic service portal dedicated to the employers, the electronic services portal for citizens, and apps for keeping pace with the cutting-edge security requirements.

The overwhelming majority of GRSIA's employees and those affiliated with the hotline 183 of Government Communications Office have been enrolled in training and upgrading courses and workshops on the enforcement of social security law.

It is based on a training plan, which intended to introduce citizens to the law through determining the methods of enforcing the law, sharing the information, employing the skills and technologies that will be utilised, in addition to getting familiarised with the updated concepts as GRSIA aims to upgrade the capabilities of its working cadres in the service of the community.

In the same context, GRSIA has recently submitted multiple circulars to employers in the public and private sectors within the framework of its keenness to discharge its functions and embark on its jurisdictions in enforcing the law provisions in an efficient and effective way.

This is to ensure the general objectives of social security system, confirming its keenness to proceed with its efforts in the optimal enforcement of the law and cooperate with the competent authorities in Qatar to supply them with the essential information required to entirely enforce the law.

In addition, GRSIA pointed out that according to these circulars it will be incumbent upon all employers registered in the authority to adhere to the regulations of data supply systems, application forms and documents approved by them.

In addition, it aimed to fix the subscription account salary that exceeds QR100,000 on the date of April 19, 2022, to be the maximum limit for the subscription account salary, determining the value of housing allowance allocated to each employee.

This will be in accordance with the subscription rules set forth in the social security law, uploading the value of housing allowance allocated for each employee in the specified slot on the electronic service portal of the employer in the B2B subscription system of the subscribers.

The General Retirement and Social Insurance Authority noted that employers should observe that the amount must not exceed QR6,000 in all cases when they determine the value of the insured's contribution for the housing allowance.

It added that the salary of the subscription account for the insured, after the addition of housing allowance, must not exceed the maximum limit of the subscription account which is QR100,000, since the subscription is calculated for the housing allowance, which is disbursed to the employee who benefits from government housing or housing obtained at the expense of the employer, as if it was paid in cash.

This is as per actual social situation of the employee with a maximum limit QR6,000, with the necessary observation of the maximum limit of the aforementioned subscription account salary.

The law No. 1 of 2022, was proclaimed by issuing the social security law in official Gazette of Qatar in its 7th issue for the year 2022.

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani issued Law No. 1 of 2022, on April 19, 2022, by issuing the social security law.

The law is effective following six months after the date of its publication in the official Gazette, with the exception of Articles 4 (fifth paragraph), 13 (first paragraph), 30 (first paragraph), which shall be enforced starting from the date of issuance of this law.

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