Tax visits 2024: the times of INPS checks in the event of illness have been standardized. The availability slots are the same for employees of private companies and for public employees, while the rule which provides for the possibility of checks also on Sundays and public holidays does not change. The guide to the established rules
Tax visits 2024: what are the timetables Not availability ranges provided for employees of private companies and public employees?
The new year started with some important news: the time slots for INPS checks in case of illness have been in uniform.
Like those who work in the private sector, state workers must also be available from 10am to 12pm and from 5pm to 7pm every day, including Sundays and holidays.
No changes regarding the exemptions provided and on the further rules relating to tax visits, including sanctions and modification methods of the data relating tocontact address.
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Tax visits 2024: times and availability slots for INPS checks in case of illness
Tax visits 2024: what are the times to be respected?
The tax visit times to which they may be subjected public or private employees have been standardized.
The news was communicated by INPS message no. 4640/2023, after the ruling of the TAR of Lazio which annulled decree no. 206 of 17 October 2017 of the then Ministry of Simplification and Public Administration, so-called Madia-Poletti decree.
Until last year i workers in the public sector they were required to respect the availability slots foreseen from 9 to 13 and from 15 to 18, compared to the reduced hours foreseen for private employees.
A considered differentiation unconstitutional and which is therefore the basis of the standardization of the rules relating to tax visits 2024.
For all employees, and therefore also for state workers, the scheduled times are therefore as follows:
Public and private employees Availability bands 2024 (7 days a week including weekends and holidays) Morning 10:00 – 12:00 Afternoon 17:00 – 19:00
However, the general rules do not change: when a worker cannot carry out his activity due to a health problem you can contact your doctor who draws up and sends a sickness certificate to INPS electronically.
The Institute can also check on employer’s requestthe presence of the interested party at theaddress communicated to the Institutetaking into account the expected availability times.
Tax visits 2024: when INPS checks are carried out
As highlighted previously, the prerequisite for receiving tax visits is thesending the sickness certificate to INPS.
THE medical check-ups may be ordered ex officio by the Institute towards the private workers who have the right to social security protection for sickness and public workers, but also on request of the employers.
When you can’t go to work, your doctor sends you a message electronically specific certificate to the Institute, among the various information there is:
- the start and presumed end date of the stop period from work activities;
- the personal data and thecontact address for checks.
The day of issuing the certificate inaugurates the period of illness.
Only if it is a certificate drawn up following a home visit, INPS also recognizes the day before it was drawn up (only if it is a weekday) and when expressly indicated by the doctor.
It is in this time frame and in the availability ranges indicate that INPS can carry out the checks.
For this it is necessary to verify that i data included in the certificate drawn up by INPS are correct but also make sure that on the bell of the domicile of availability the right name is indicated to allow the INPS doctor to carry out the check-up.
Please also remember that tax visits can be carried out 7 days a week, including weekdays and holidays that fall during the period of illness. Obligation to be available also on weekends, and therefore on both Saturdays and Sundays.
Tax visits 2024: how to change your contact address
One of the aspects to consider in case of absence due to illness is that it remains possible change your contact address if, during the period indicated in the certificate, you are absent from your home.
For workers in the private sector the procedure is as follows:
- in case of health insurance from INPSmust be notified in advance Territorial structure of competence via dedicated channels and also the employer. If the transfer is abroad in an EU countrythe Institute can evaluate the need for a preventive visit to verify that there are no risks linked to the movement and for the non-EU countries authorization is required;
- anyone who is not insured due to illness with INPS must only notify the employer.
Likewise, those who work in public sector must warn his own administration which in turn communicates with INPS.
The service for the registration is available on the institutional portal communication of the change of address“Citizen help desk for VMCs”.
The public or private employee, after authenticating on the INPS website, will be able to access it via the section dedicated to Online Services.
THE new availability communicated, within the same valid sickness certificate, implies theautomatic cancellation of any previous availability limited to the period of overlap between the periods of the two variations communicated.
Cases of exemption from 2024 tax visits
For a general overview on the topic, then, it must be specified that there are also cases of exemption from 2024 tax visits and therefore workers can move away from the address indicated even in the availability slots.
This absence must be communicated to the employer, must be justified and must not compromise the worker’s health and recovery.
L’exemption from INPS controls is foreseen in the following cases:
- causes of force majeure;
- situations which made the immediate presence of the worker elsewhere necessary: proven serious personal or family reasons;
- visits, services and specialist checks at the same time as the tax visit.
The certifying doctor can also indicate the need to provide an exception to the standard rules for the following reasons:
- serious pathologies requiring life-saving therapies;
- pathological states connected to the situation of recognized disability equal to or greater than 67 percent;
- recognized service cause which gave rise to the attributability of the single or multiple impairment to the first three categories of “table A” attached to the decree of the President of the Republic of 30 December 1981, n. 834, or pathologies included in “table E” of the same decree (provided only for public employees).
Then, some examples come from practice and jurisprudence valid justifications for absence from the indicated address during the hours of availability:
- medical visits at your doctor, when it is not possible to carry out them at other times;
- necessity of injections for treatments related to the cause of presentation of the medical certificate at work;
- withdrawal of radiography linked to the medical certificate;
- dental care urgent;
- need to go to pharmacy.
Added to these are also causes not strictly linked to the disease:
- voluntary activities which do not compromise the state of health indicated in the medical certificate presented at work;
- visit relatives in hospitalif the visiting hours coincide with the availability slots for tax visits.
Absence during tax visits: what happens? Sanctions for workers
What happens if no details are foreseen cases of exemption or there are no valid justifications and you are absent during the tax visits?
The INPS guide responds:
“You are invited with a specific notice to present yourself on a specific date at the clinics of the relevant INPS territorial structure”.
It is then necessary to present suitable justification for the absence of the home check-up visit in order not to incur, in the case in which sickness benefit is due, the administrative sanctions provided for by law and in any case any disciplinary actions by the employer.
For the worker absent due to illness who is not available during the tax visit, one is provided sanction for unjustified absence.
In case of absence and unavailability during the times indicated by INPS for tax visits the salary is deducted:
- of the 100 percent for the first 10 days of pathology;
- of the 50 percent for the following days.
Workers absent from the address indicated for tax visits can still submit a valid justification for unjustified absence.
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2024-01-16 13:22:57
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