Since 1992 the requirement is twelve months of contributions over the past six years.
The BBC understands he is considering a minimum of six months of contributions before the entitlement threshold would be reached.
With a contribution rate of 4percentt, under regular conditions, six months of contributions would be just enough to finance one quarter of a month's salary.
As an illustration, take the case of a program that requires six months of contributions to be eligible for, say, 3 months of unemployment benefits.
In traditional unemployment insurance schemes the eligibility for benefits – and often the level of benefits – depend on the number of months of contributions.
In addition, since benefits are financed only out of savings, contributions rates are usually high (e.g., 8percenttoto finance one month of unemployment benefits after 12 months of contributions) and this can reduce incentives to enroll or game the system.
The latest numbers include about a month of contributions from Sun Microsystems, the struggling server and software maker that Oracle bought for $7.4 billion.
After a few months of occasional contributions, Sun bigwigs offered me a contract and asked if I'd be interested in regular appearances: twice a week.
The previous underground project should, however, have taught you a lot - so after several months of the productive contribution you can try to demand rights you think you should have.
Nevertheless, based on the high sensitivity of the modern CT to detect SAH and CTA/MRA to detect aneurysm and the fact that no patients developed SAH during at least 6 months of follow-up, the contribution of missed SAH to the low SAH percentage in our study may be minor [17, 28, 29].
All four legislators made their inquiries within a few months of receiving significant campaign contributions from ReGen, which is based in New Jersey, but all said they had acted appropriately and were not influenced by the money.
