Social Security Institution
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Ankara |
| Minister responsible |
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| Parent department | Ministry of Health (Turkey) |
| Website | http://www.sgk.gov.tr |
The Social Security Institution (Turkish: Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu (SGK)) is the governing authority of the Turkish social security system. It was established by the Social Security Institution Law No:5502, which was published in the Official Gazette No: 26173 on June 20, 2006. This brought five different retirement systems that affected civil servants, contractual paid workers, agricultural paid workers, and self-employed workers into a single retirement system offering equal actuarial rights and obligations.
Work accidents (described as when the insurance holder is at the workplace, in another area working under an elephant, in another area allocated for breastfeeding as per labor legislation, or in a vehicle provided by an employer while en route from work to home or vice versa) "causes, at short notice or later, physical or mental handicap in the insurance holder." SSI mandates such accidents be reported by employers to "local law enforcement agencies immediately and to the SSI no later than three workdays after accident occurs." If the insurance holder is self-employed, they must contact the Institution directly with work accident and occupational disease notification "within 3 working days after their health status are good enough to report, provided that this recovery period does not exceed one month."
An occupational disease refers to a temporary or permanent disease caused by "the quality of the work carried out by the insurance holder or by working conditions."
Sickness "refers to discomfort causing the incapacity of the insurance holders, who work on service contract and on their own name and account, due to the reasons other than work accident or occupational disease."
Maternity insurance refers to the sickness and invalidity statuses of an insured woman or the spouse of a male insurance holder working on service contract or who receives income or pension caused by the pregnancy or maternity status. Maternity insurance "starts from the date of pregnancy up to the first eight weeks or, in case of multi-delivery, up to the first ten weeks following delivery." They are also eligible for Temporary Incapacity Allowance.
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