The General Authority for Pensions and Social Security confirmed that the law gave the insured and the pensioner the opportunity to improve the percentage of pension at the end of service through the "service of annexation", where each of them can combine the previous service period or pension service in any previous work authority to the period of the subsequent service for Improving the percentage of pension at the end of service.
Hanan Al-Sahlawi, Executive Director of the Authority’s pension sector, stated that the law gives the pensioner who re-joined the opportunity to join the service period for which he is entitled to a pension, with the aim of improving his pension percentage upon the end of his services, noting that it is required to join this period to increase his life when returning to work Over 55 years, and that the period he desires to include includes the entire period for which the pension was linked, whether it was actual, fixed or purchased, stopping the payment of the pension from the date of returning to work, and submitting the application for joining within one year of returning to work.
She said to «Emirates Today»: «The inclusion in this case is characterized by that the insured may not bear any costs if the salary of his new subscription account is less or equal to the salary of his pension account from the authority, where the costs are calculated based on the difference between the subscription account salary when submitting Demand application and pension calculation salary in 20%, which is the full contribution rate for him and the employer in the period of years to be combined in months and days, so that if the contribution account salary is equal to or less than the pension account salary, the service includes no cost ».
Regarding the inclusion of the period of service of the insured while he is at the head of his work, Al-Sahlawi explained that this type of annexation has the advantage that it also contributes to increasing the insured's chances of obtaining the retirement pension as a result of combining the previous service period with the subsequent service period, so that the period of his service becomes continuous and is treated upon settlement His insurance rights based on the total of the two periods together, indicating that those wishing to join the service must submit the application for joining, and pay the costs of joining before the end of the service, and for the addition of the previous service period, it is required to submit a written request before the end of the service required to be attached, provided that the period required for joining is not temporary. Or daily (work for daily wages), or from Training Dah, and not have been terminated because of the reasons for the denial of full pension or reward.
She explained that the cost of joining in this case is calculated based on the multiplication of the salary of the contribution account from the date of submitting the request for joining × (20%), which is the full contribution rate for the insured and the employer × the period of service required to be combined in months and days, adding: «Example of calculating the cost of The affiliation that if the insured wishes to join five previous years of service, and the salary of his contribution account at the date of submitting the application for joining is (20000) dirhams, the cost of joining is calculated in this way: (20000 x 20% x 60) = 240,000 dirhams. Al-Sahlawi pointed out that the procedures followed for submitting the application for attachment are submitting the insured to the application for attachment through the employer through the electronic portal of the “Authority”, attaching all documents and documents related to the attachment, and filling the forms that he wishes to join, such as the original certificate of the previous service certificate from the employer Previous, detailed and recent salary certificate.
119 insured persons benefited from the service addition in 2018
The Federal Pensions Authority reported that the number of insured persons who benefited from the addition of the previous service period in 2018 reached 119, including 67 in the federal government sector, 34 in the local government sector, and 18 in the private sector, while the number of insured persons who benefited Of the 188 years of the previous service period, approximately 188 were insured, including 76 in the federal government sector, 66 in the local government sector, and 46 in the private sector.