The severe economic crisis that befell the State of Israel is far from over, and tens of thousands are still unemployed. Right now, it turns out that due to a mistake in the report, about 400,000 Israelis received unemployment benefits that they were not supposed to receive, in the amount of about a billion shekels. Meir Spiegler, CEO of the National Insurance Institute, spoke tonight (Tuesday) with Anat Davidov on 103fm and sharply criticized the employment service due to the incorrect data he passed on.
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“The people who received the unemployment benefits and were not entitled to them were unemployed. They reported to the employment service when they returned to work, but the employment service reported to the Social Security that they were still unemployed,” Spiegler explained how the mistake was made. “The employment service made Social Security work to transfer money to people, and now we are required to collect the money back.”
“From the first moment, we were warned and said that the data coming from the employment service are sucked out of the finger. The data is illusory and has nothing to do with reality,” Spiegler said. “For months and months we have been saying this to the Ministry of Finance. We have advanced legislation in the Knesset of Israel, which has been approved by the Finance Committee, and with its help it was possible to create a situation where we do not need the employment service reports.”
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Does the Social Security not need to transfer the information from the employment service at all?
“We could provide a service with a minimum of bureaucracy to anyone who was unemployed, without tossing it between the employment service and the Social Security and back again. We do not need the employment service,” Spiegler argued, adding, “We want to promote legislation that the unemployed should not be tortured. Two bodies. “
Spiegler went on to criticize, emphasizing, “We do not run away from responsibility, unlike the employment service. We serve the public and exhaust our powers. The employment service has authority in law and it runs away from it. If the employment service does not want the responsibility and does not want the authority, they transfer it to us.” .
Speaking about how the Social Security will collect back the unemployment benefits that were mistakenly given to about 400,000 residents, “Spiegler said:” Each of those people lost their source of livelihood at some point in time, and he is certainly not to blame for Social Security data. And on the basis of an agreement with him. “