The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the amendments to the law "on insurance against unemployment" make law "on insurance against unemployment" (Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1999, no. 24) as follows: 1. Article 7: replace the second subparagraph, point 2 of part three and the fourth part number and the words "70 percent of the country's minimum monthly salary (salary), what was the effect of unemployment benefits on the date of the request" with a number and the words "60 percent of unemployment benefits on the date of application of the existing national social security benefit claims double ";
in the fifth subparagraph, replace the words "unemployment benefits on the date of application of the existing national minimum monthly salary (salary) of the level" five times with the words "the national average monthly insurance contribution wage double, in addition, the monthly average salary insurance contributions calculated on the salary insurance contributions State for the calendar year, the period between one calendar year before the year in which the entitlement to unemployment benefit (hereinafter the national average monthly insurance contribution salary)".
2. Add to article 8 of the fourth subparagraph by the following: "(4) the average insurance salaries in the country determined by the Ministry of welfare."
3. Article 9: replace the third subparagraph of paragraph 2, the words "two-State minimum wages (salary)" with a number and the words "80 percent of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage";
replace the third subparagraph of paragraph 3, the words "one State minimum salary (base salary)" with a number and the words "40 percent of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage".
4. Replace article 11, second paragraph, the number and the words "50 percent of the country's minimum monthly salary (salary)" with a number and the words "40 percent of the unemployed person's scholarship award in force on the day of the State social security benefit claims double".
5. Express article 12, the second subparagraph by the following: "(2) death benefit the death day of unemployed granted the existing national social security benefits a triple."
6. transitional provisions supplementing paragraph 6 by the following: "6. Until such time as the social insurance special budget expenditure exceeds revenue and not fully repaid the General State of the amount of the loan, this law article 7, second paragraph, third and fourth part of unemployment benefit is $35 a month, article 7 in the fifth part of unemployment benefit amount per month must not be greater than 250 lats , article 9 paragraph 2 of the third paragraph in the unemployment benefit may not be greater than 100 lats a month, article 9 paragraph 3 of part three in the unemployment benefit may not be greater than 50 lats a month, in the second paragraph of article 11, in particular unemployment stipend is $25 per month and the second paragraph of article 12 in the burial allowance is 100 lats. That is fully repaid the General State of the amount of the loan, the Minister of Finance shall notify the newspaper "journal". With next year's January 1 is interrupted the limitation provided for in this paragraph. "
The law shall enter into force on 1 January 2001.
The Parliament adopted the law on 23 November 2000.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga 2000 December 12