{"id":3970,"date":"2024-02-26T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:39:07","slug":"govt-to-effect-adjustment-of-medical-subsidy-for-public-servants-on-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2024\/02\/26\/govt-to-effect-adjustment-of-medical-subsidy-for-public-servants-on-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to effect adjustment of medical subsidy for public servants on GEMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The adjustment of medical subsidy for employees on the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) will be implemented next month, March.<\/p>\n

In a circular issued to all Heads national departments and Provincial Administrations, DPSA Director-General Ms Yoliswa Makhasi said the adjustment will be backed dated to January 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

The adjustment of the employer subsidy is described in the table below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Member Profile<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

1 January 2023 Monthly Employer Subsidy<\/td>\n1 January 2024 Monthly Employer Subsidy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

Single Principal Member<\/td>\n

R1701.00<\/td>\nR1\u00c2\u00a0810.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

Principal Member with one dependent<\/td>\n

R3402.00<\/td>\nR3\u00c2\u00a0620.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

Principal Member with two dependents<\/td>\n

R4\u00c2\u00a0442.00<\/td>\nR4\u00c2\u00a0726.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

Principal Member with three dependents<\/td>\n

R5\u00c2\u00a0482.00<\/td>\nR5\u00c2\u00a0832.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

Principal Member with four dependents<\/td>\n

R 6\u00c2\u00a0522.00<\/td>\nR6\u00c2\u00a0938.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To the public servants, Ms Makhasi said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the DPSA wishes to apologise for the inconvenience caused.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The adjustment of medical subsidy for employees on the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) will be implemented next month, March. In a circular issued to all Heads national departments and Provincial Administrations, DPSA Director-General Ms Yoliswa Makhasi said the adjustment will be backed dated to January 1, 2024. The adjustment of the employer subsidy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}