AMMAN —
Social Security Corporation (SSC)said on Sunday that 1,423,000 people got insured with the corporation during
the first quarter of this year, 8 percent more than in the same period last
year, and “the highest number in the last 10 years”, according to Al-Mamlaka
TV.
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The first quarter of this year saw 2.8 percent more
voluntary subscribers than in the same period last year, exceeding 80,300,
while last year the number had reached 78,100, according to an SSC statement.
In the first quarter of 2022, 177,100 individuals
working in the largest 100 employment facilities were insured with SSC, while
173,000 were insured in the same period last year, a growth rate of 2.4
percent.
SSC attributed the increase in the number of insured
persons in the first quarter of 2022 to “the launch of initiatives taken to
that end, and to higher awareness among workers in various sectors about the
need to get insured, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the
corporation played a huge role in supporting economic activities and workers
covered by social security.
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