BRATISLAVA, January 20, (WEBNOVINY) — Prime Minister Iveta Radicova (SDKU-DS) has promised to a delegation of university students changes to the amended health insurance law, according to which university students aged over 26 and postgraduate students aged over thirty have to pay their health insurance as of January. She promised representatives of the Student Council of Higher Educational Institutions (SRVS) a revision of the law, which would return the situation to the state before the law was amended, informed the head of the student council Juraj Tilesch. The spokesman for Prime Minister Radicova, Rado Bato confirmed the information for SITA, specifying that already the parliamentary session in February might anchor the promised changes.
Tilesch said that the prime minister surprised them by a solution, according to which students can circumvent the duty to pay health insurance payments when they apply for a social allowance to persons in material need, which represents in practice a complicated bureaucratic process, said Tilesch. He said that the Student Council did identify itself with the solution. The council does not consider it a solution for students with part-time work contracts and those who are self-employed persons who are in this way motivated to not work or work illegally.
The amendment to the health insurance law, according to which university students aged over 26 and postgraduate students aged over 30 have to pay health insurance payments as of January 1 has evoked a wave of discontent among students.
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