Social security subscribers urged to pay dues to benefit from natural death insurance

AMMAN — The Social Security Corporation on Tuesday urged its subscribers to commit to paying their monthly dues without delay, especially to benefit from the natural death insurance.

Subscribers must hold a social security subscription for a minimum of 24 months, including six consecutive months, to benefit from the natural death insurance, the corporation’s media director, Musa Sbeihi, told The Jordan Times over the phone.

A total of 787 natural death cases were registered among SSC subscribers, who died while still on the payroll in 2014. The cost of natural death pensions for their heirs has not been calculated as some inheritors are yet to complete official procedures, he said.

Sbeihi noted that heirs receive 50 per cent of the average value of the subscriber’s benefits for the last 12 months before death, in addition to other compensation.

Some 14,000 subscribers have benefited from the natural death insurance since the corporation’s establishment in 1978, with an overall insurance value reaching JD260 million, while funeral allowances given to their heirs stood at JD4.4 million, according to the SSC official.

The SSC’s monthly allocations for natural death insurance stand at JD2.5 million out of the total retirement allowances, he said.

Sbeihi urged subscribers to pay their dues without delay to avoid the suspension of their subscriptions, as paying after delay does not compensate for the previously unpaid durations and does not allow subscribers to benefit from natural death or workplace injury insurances if they are not committed to regular payment.