President William Ruto has changed his mind about employees matching their employee’s contributions to the National Insurance Health Fund (NHIF).
Speaking on Monday, April 24 while commissioning the CyberKnife at the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, President Ruto said that his team would come up with new regulations and amendments to the proposal by May.
“We have taken time, we have interrogated the new National Health insurance scheme, we have gone through the regulations that were taken to court by some of our partners and we have agreed that there is no need of matching our contributions on health.
“Therefore we will be presenting new amendments to parliament hopefully by May 15 so that they can be interrogated,” said Ruto.
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The Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) had moved to court in 2022 to challenge the proposal arguing that employers will be overburdened with additional costs under the current challenging economic landscape.
FKE also argued that matching employees’ contributions would be a threat to members’ right to property.
The court ruled in favor of the FKE and blocked the government from enforcing the proposal.
