Area: Zdravstvo
Competent authority: ZZZS
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 336
Initiative accepted and completed: '2014-06-03'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2014-05-20'
Initiative published: '2014-05-20'
Initiative submitted: '2014-05-06'
Response from the competent authority: 'Reply from ZZZS: The petitioner submits that
  a person who has lost his/her job and registers with the Employment Service of the
  Republic of Slovenia (ZRSZ) is now obliged to appear in person at ZZZS to arrange
  insurance, which in his/her view is redundant. He suggests simplifying the procedure,
  e.g. by automatically changing the contributor to the compulsory health insurance
  upon termination of the employment relationship and registration with the ZRSZ,
  or by allowing the insured person to change the information himself, e.g. by means
  of a simple (sentence in the submitted petition is not complete).In this respect,
  we would like to clarify that if the petitioner meant the automatic change of the
  insurance from the employment relationship (1.  The mere registration with the ZRSZ
  does not yet provide a basis for insurance under Article 15(1)(9) of the ZZVZZ.
  The legal basis is only the right to unemployment benefit recognised by an enforceable
  decision. Once the ZRSZ issues a decision (which cannot be immediately after the
  employment relationship has ended) and recognises this right, the ZRSZ, as the person
  liable for the registration, files an application, retroactively, with the starting
  date from which the right is recognised (as a rule, the right is from the last day
  after the employment relationship has ended).Any automatic change of the insurance,
  and thus of the person liable for the contribution, is therefore not possible.However,
  since it takes some time for the Social Insurance Office to issue a decision on
  entitlement to the cash benefit, the person must in the meantime arrange for compulsory
  health insurance on a temporary basis on some other basis for which he or she is
  eligible at the time.This is usually insurance under Article 15(1)(20) of the Health
  Insurance Act or insurance as a family member or spouse. Even such insurance cannot
  be automatically set up by the Health Insurance Fund, as it does not know under
  which basis the person is eligible at that time. Insurance under the two above-mentioned
  grounds is the insurance of last resort, and if a person qualifies for any other
  priority insurance, he or she must be insured under this other ground.In order to
  arrange insurance under the other appropriate ground for the interim period while
  awaiting a decision on entitlement to the benefit, we would like to make it clear
  that it is not necessary for the person to appear in person at one of our regional
  units and offices. They can also send their application for insurance by post, and
  we are planning to make it possible for a person to submit such an application electronically,
  in a similar way to the way in which registrants who are registered as business
  entities in the Business Register of Slovenia can do so, via the national portal
  for businesses and entrepreneurs - VEM (National portal for businesses and entrepreneurs
  - VEM).'
Text file: 336.txt
Title: Reporting a change in compulsory health insurance
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=336
