SSC announces new rules for subscribers with multiple jobs

AMMAN — Social Security Corporation (SSC) subscribers with more than one job can now benefit from all insurances offered by their workplaces, SSC Director General Nadia Rawabdeh said on Wednesday.

At a press conference to brief journalists on amendments to insurance by-laws under the 2014 Social Security Law, Rawabdeh said subscribers would benefit from work injury insurance if they were injured at any of their jobs.

Subscribers will also benefit from all other insurances at the SSC, by accrediting the highest salary they receive, provided that the employee has served the minimum period necessary to accredit that salary.

“Subscribers who served in more than one facility at the same time will benefit from their highest salary when their pensions or early pensions are due, provided that they paid at least 84 subscriptions at the facility paying the highest salary,” she said.

The director general noted that if a subscriber does not meet the requirement of 84 subscriptions in either workplace, his or her pension will be calculated based on their work with the most subscriptions.

As for multi-job subscribers, they can benefit from the unemployment insurance based on their highest salary, only if they stopped working at all facilities at the same time and have at least 36 subscriptions at the time of leaving the facility with the highest salary, Rawabdeh remarked.

As for maternity insurance, the SSC official said that females can benefit from it based on their highest salary only if the woman has at least 12 subscriptions at the facility with the highest salary.

“Inheritors of an optional subscriber can receive a pension if the deceased person stopped paying the monthly fees for ‘certain circumstances’, provided that the deceased subscriber stopped paying for no more than 60 months and the inheritors pay the due subscriptions,” Rawabdeh said.

The changes also allow the subscriber who sustained a work injury to receive treatment outside the Kingdom, without referring to the SSC medical team, the director general added.

“In such cases, the SSC covers the treatment costs according to the Jordanian lists of medical fees and medical care expenses accredited by the corporation, or according to the original copies of accredited medical invoices the injured worker presents, whichever is less,” she said.

The SSC is also considering providing health insurance to all its subscribers, and Rawabdeh expected a relevant by-law to be issued on January 1 outlining a start date for the coverage.