What is the minimum contribution amount for the plan?
The minimum contribution amount to the private pension plan is 125 Turkish lira.
You can make monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual contribution payments using your credit card or by giving a direct debit mandate.
The Private Pension Plan offers the following benefits:
You will benefit from numerous additional advantages right after your enrollment in the Private Pension Plan.
- Discounts at Contracted Health Institutions
- Contribution Assurance
- Assistance Services
How much is the enrollment fee and the administrative expense fee deduction?
The enrollment fee for the contract, considering the monthly gross minimum wage applicable at the date of signing the pension contract proposal form, is defined as follows:
(a) 75 percent of the monthly gross minimum wage for those who withdraw within three (3) years of the effective date of the contract
(b) For contracts completing three (3) years after the effective date, 50 percent of the monthly gross minimum wage for those who withdraw before five (5) years.
Contracts for which an enrollment fee is defined, all enrollment fees are deferred until the date of transfer to another company or withdrawal from the system. Contracts for which an enrollment fee is not defined or the contract has completed five (5) years after the effective date, enrollment fees cannot be collected.
Administrative Expense Fee Deduction Over Contributions
In the Private Pension Plan, administrative expenses fee is not deducted from the contributions.
Additional Administrative Expense Fee Deduction
In the Private Pension Plan, additional administrative expenses fee is not deducted from the contributions.
Administrative Expense Fee Deduction Over the Accumulation
In the Private Pension Plan, the sum of the enrollment fee and administrative expense fee deductions being subject to the annual upper limit, one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual upper limit of the sum of the enrollment fee and administrative expense fee is rounded and deducted from the accumulation in the account as the administrative expense fee, on the 15th day of each month (if that is not a workday then on the first following workday) in the first five (5) years of the contract, by selling shares from the pension funds.
*The Annual Upper Limit of the Sum of the Enrollment Fee and the Administrative Expense Fee represents 8.5 percent of the monthly gross minimum wage amount effective after January of the starting year of each contract, limited to five (5) years after the effective date of the contract.
What is the total fund expense fee deduction refund? How is it determined?
Starting from the sixth year of the contract, the total fund expense fee deduction is refunded to the relevant pension fund at certain rates.
The required contract years and corresponding refund rates of this program, which will begin on January 1, 2021, are as follows: