Prayut handed list of complaints over SSO reforms

The complaint was made on Monday to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha via Government House’s Public Service Centre in Bangkok.
The committee had previously submitted a proposal for reform, along with details of the problems and negative impacts on workers, but the government and related agencies seemed to have ignored them and gone ahead with projects that SSO subscribers disagreed with, TLSC president Sawit Kaewwan said.
When they argued the point with the government, officials just stalled and tried to justify their moves by hosting public hearings that were not widely open to SSO subscribers to participate in thoroughly, he claimed.

Sawit said the TLSC wanted the government to answer the following eight questions:

1.  Why doesn’t the government turn the SSO into an independent organisation that is transparent and has true participation by subscribers?
2. Why doesn’t the government pay contributions to the SSO Fund at the same amount as those made by employers and workers, as per the SSO Act 1990?
3. Why does the government still owe Bt56 billion in contributions to the SSO Fund? And when will it pay that amount in full?
4.  Why doesn’t the government increase the benefits for those insured under Section 40 to be equal to those under Section 33?
5. Why doesn’t the government change the criteria to calculate the old-age allowance from the currently-used 20 per cent of the subscriber’s average base salary in the past 60 months to be 50 per cent of the subscriber’s average salary?
6. Why doesn’t the government approve the 17 auxiliary regulations under the SSO Act (amended version 2015) for implementation when they were all completed a long time ago?
7. Why doesn’t the government allow the election of a new SSO committee to replace the old panel, whose term has already expired, causing SSO system reform to go nowhere in the past two years?
8. Why doesn’t the government allow an unlimited time period for subscribers to access benefits and allowances until the end of their medical treatment as prescribed by their doctor?