site.btaParliamentary Monitor: Wednesday

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Parliamentary
Monitor:
Wednesday


Sofia, February 9 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting on Friday, Bulgaria's Parliament transacted business as follows:

-- approved at first reading the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund for 2021, with 129 votes in favour and 90 votes against. The project was supported by Continue the Change, BSP for Bulgaria, There is Such a People and Democratic Bulgaria. GERB-UDF, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and Vazrazhdane voted against.

The budget bill envisages 604.4 million leva more for expenses and transfers (total) compared to 2021. According to estimates, total revenues and transfers are expected to amount to 6,050.7 million leva, or 604,4 million leva more than 2021. Health insurance revenues are proposed to amount to 5,802.5 million leva or 697.1 million leva more than in 2021.

Health insurance contributions are expected to reach 3,760.0 million leva or 433.9 million leva more than in 2021, and health insurance transfers from the central budget are expected to total 2,043.3 million leva, or 263,2 million leva more than in 2021.

Non-tax revenues for 2022, fines, sanctions and penalty interest, are expected to reach 23.2 million leva, which is 2.7 million leva more than in 2021.

Expenditures and transfers amounting to 6,050.7 million leva are set in the draft budget of the Health Insurance Fund. Of these, 5,871.7 million leva are offered for current expenses, 583.5 million leva more than in 2021

A total of 174 million leva are provided for the reserve, including for unforeseen and urgent expenses, which is 20.9 million more than in 2021.

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