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Since January 1, 2018, disability insurance no longer benefits from additional funding through VAT.

Starting in 2018, fees for services that are less time-consuming than in the past, thanks to medical-technical advances, will be reduced. Tariff items billed by doctors in the absence of patients, such as consultation of documents, interviews with experts or relatives, will have to be more detailed and will be limited.

The year 2018 is not synonymous with major changes in Swiss social insurance.

Cyber insurance differs from conventional IT insurance in that it covers not only the risks associated with hardware assets, but also the consequences of an incident to which the hardware may be subject, such as espionage due to intrusion, business interruption due to downtime, or damage to reputation due to fraudulent use.

If an employee on sick leave loses his or her job, the former employer’s sick pay insurance continues to apply. It is only when the period of coverage expires that unemployment insurance must begin to pay benefits.

The two chambers came to an agreement during the last spring session. Social insurers will be able to use detectives to monitor policyholders in the event of suspected fraud.

Overview of social insurance: Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Pillar 3a

On May 19, Swiss citizens will be asked to vote on tax reform and the financing of the AHV (old age and survivors’ insurance), in response to the two major rejections that left their mark on our economy in 2017. Against this backdrop, the Federal Council and Parliament have drawn up a new draft without…