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    Information on the €30, €20 and €10 state benefits for compensation of energy costs

    In order to compensate for the increase in the cost of energy resources and related services, from 1 November 2022 to 31 May 2023 , the State Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) will disburse a state benefit to a person who resides in Latvia and receives during this period: old-age, invalidity or survivors' pension, including early and advance pension; retirement pension – if the age required for an old-age pension has been reached, but no old-age pension has been granted; retirement pension – if the age required for an old-age pension has not been reached, but the person has been recognised as suffering from disability;  special pension; compensation for loss of capacity to work or for loss of a provider; state social security benefit (SSSB), granted in the Republic of Latvia....
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    Published: 04.10.2022.

    Pension Methodical Management Division

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    Funded Pension Scheme Administration Division

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    Granting and disbursement of sickness benefit

    From May 1, 2025 for working pension beneficiaries, to whom the pensioner's non-taxable minimum is applied separately – EUR 500 for the salary, EUR 500 for the pension, because the payroll tax book has been submitted to the employer – the part of the non-taxable minimum applied to the salary shall also be applied to the sickness benefit by the SSIA....
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    One-time aid for asylum seekers who have been assigned alternative status from March 1 to April 6

    A person, who has been assigned an alternative status during the period form March 1 to April 6, 2021 (during the emergency situation related to Covid-19) and who has reached the age necessary to receive the old-age pension or who has been determined with disability is entitled to receive a one-time aid of 200 euros....
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    Published: 27.12.2021.

    Granting and disbursement of a benefit for the maintenance of a child under guardianship

    The benefit is paid to the guardian for the maintenance of the child from the date of establishment of guardianship until the age of 18 or the date of revocation of guardianship. The maintenance benefit for a child under guardianship is reduced by the amount of the survivor's pension granted to the child, the insurance indemnity for the loss of the breadwinner, maintenance from the Maintenance Guarantee Fund, or the State family benefit....
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    Information on payments actually made by SSIA

    The statement contains information on pension, benefit or indemnity paid by the State Social Insurance Agency (SSIA). This statement is issued by SSIA also in cases when legalisation of a document is required by the consular officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
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    Granting and disbursement of funeral benefit

    Funeral allowance is paid to the person organising the funeral: • in the case of death of an employee, self-employed person or a family member that was dependant on them; • in the case of death of an unemployed person; • in the case of death of a beneficiary of a pension or insurance indemnity; • in the case of death of a beneficiary of the state social security benefit....
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    Information on the registered insurance record until 1996

    The statement contains information on the employment and equivalent periods of a person who has been employed prior to 1996, registered with the State Social Insurance Agency that give the right to social insurance services — pension and unemployment benefit....
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    The payment of the outstanding payment in the case of the death of SSIA service beneficiary

    In the case of death of the beneficiary of a pension, State social benefit or social insurance benefit, the service amounts that were granted and calculated for payment that have not been paid before the death of the beneficiary of the service may be received by the spouse of the deceased beneficiary of the service, the first-level and second-level relatives, and another person on the basis of the inheritance certificate or court ruling....
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    Information on granted SSIA services

    The statement contains information on the amount of pension, benefit or indemnity granted by the State Social Insurance Agency (SSIA). This statement is issued by SSIA also in cases when legalisation of a document is required by the consular officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
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    Information on payments made to SSIA and income tax deducted therefrom (for declaration of income)

    A statement shall contain information provided by the State Social Insurance Agency to the State Revenue Service regarding payments made (pension, benefit, refunded overpaid State mandatory social insurance contributions) and personal income tax (PIT) deducted therefrom....
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    Granting and disbursement of damages in Case of liquidation of the consequences of the accident of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant

    Compensation for damages is also paid to the incapacitated family members of the deceased Chernobyl NPP participant who were his or her dependents and who have been granted a survivor's pension....
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    Submission of documents relating to the seniority of a person up to 1996

    The service intends to accept from persons documents for proof of insurance periods and, on the basis of them, to accumulate in the SSIA database information on the length of personal insurance until 31 December 1995, which is necessary for the calculation of the total length of insurance in order to determine the right to a pension or unemployment benefit....
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    Implementation of the Agreement between the Republic of Latvia and the Russian Federation

    However, the Agreements biggest influence is upon the pension sector. The Agreement expands the scope of people residing in Latvia who are entitled to receiving a pension for periods in Russia....
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    Published: 02.11.2020.
    Updated: 13.05.2025.

    Social security in the EU

    The Regulations are related to the following services: Sickness benefits; Maternity benefits and equivalent paternity benefits; Disability pension; Retirement pension (service pension); Survivor’s pension; Compensations for accidents in the working place and occupational diseases; Burial allowances; Unemployment benefits; Family benefits (family state benefit, family state benefit supplement for disabled child care, disabled child care benefit and parent’s benefit)....
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    Published: 02.11.2020.

    Implementation of the Agreement between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Moldova

    On July 1, 2024, an agreement with the Republic of Moldova on cooperation in the field of social security has entered into force. The agreement regulates a person's social insurance if person goes to work in another country, the right to indemnity or social benefits, however, the agreement affects the field of pensions the most, because according to the terms of the agreement, each contracting country pays out pensions for its own insurance periods....
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    Published: 08.07.2024.

    Implementation of the Agreement between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Belarus

    However, the Agreements biggest influence is upon the pension sector, as according to the regulations of the Agreement, each contracting country pays the pension for its own periods of insurance....
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    Published: 02.11.2020.

    Implementation of the Agreement between the Republic of Latvia and Ukraine

    However, the Agreements biggest influence is upon the pension sector. The Agreement concerns permanent residents of Latvia and Ukraine, who have accumulated insurance length according to the legislation of one or both contracting countries....
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    Published: 02.11.2020.

    Implementation of the Agreement between the Republic of Latvia and Australia

    On 1 January 2013 the Agreement between Republic of Latvia and Australia on Social Security entered into force (hereinafter – Agreement). In relation to Latvia the Agreement stipulates personal social insurance, where a person from Latvia is working in Australia, right to old age pension and the survivor’s pension, as well as its right to benefits like social security in case of old age and survivor’s pensions, death grant in case of death of the person receiving Latvia’s pension and one-time allowance for the deceased’s spouse in case of death of the person receiving Latvia’s old age pension....
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    Published: 02.11.2020.