Warsaw, 2 February 2009
Sygnity S.A. will adjust the System of Supplementary Financing and
Reimbursement Servicing in PFRON (the State Fund for Rehabilitation of
Disabled Persons) to the new legislation
The Company Sygnity S.A. has concluded an agreement with PFRON on modification of
the System of Supplementary Financing and Reimbursement Servicing. The
modifications of the already functioning system are necessary due to the new legislation
adjusting the Polish law to the European Union regulations. The agreement concluded
with PFRON is aimed at adjusting the SODiR system to the changes resulting from the
Act of 5 December 2008 on a change of the Act on professional and social rehabilitation
and employment of disabled persons. The modifications of the system will also include
changes resulting from Regulation of 9 January 2009 on supplementary financing of
remuneration of disabled employees and on reimbursement of social insurance
contributions of disabled persons. The agreement amounts to PLN 7.2 million net.
First, electronic placing applications for supplementary financing of remunerations of
disabled employees running business activities is to be made available from the beginning of
February 2009. Next, there will be activated the functionalities for farmers who will be
applying for reimbursement of social insurance contributions. The works on introduction and
verification of the applications are to be completed by 30 March 2009. The remaining
functionalities of the system, including additional servicing of the beneficiaries, will be
implemented by 30 June 2009.
The SODiR system in its hitherto form serves social aid beneficiaries, who submit in an
electronic or paper form applications for obtaining supplementary financing of remuneration
for disabled employees and applications for reimbursement of obligatory social insurance
contributions of disabled persons, disabled persons who run business activities, disabled
farmers or their disabled household members, for whom the farmer is obliged to pay
insurance contributions. The system, having verified the applications, allocates on the
Beneficiary’s account the aid that has been granted. At present there are nearly 50 thousand
beneficiaries registered in the system: employers, persons running business activities and
farmers.
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About Sygnity S.A.
Sygnity S.A. was established by a merger of the competencies of the companies
ComputerLand and Emax. The company is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (SGN). In
2007, the Sygnity Group generated revenues of over PLN 1.2 billion. It employs over 2000
people including experts with extensive information technology knowledge and specialists
with professional experience. The company offers own solutions supplemented with
international products and technologies. It provides a complete range of services, from
consulting, through execution to outsourcing of information technology projects for large and
medium companies in the key sectors of economy and public administration institutions. At
present, the Group is made up of a dozen companies in Poland and abroad. The biggest
companies include, next to Sygnity S.A., ARAM – which carries out information technology
projects for the public administration, the company Projekty Bankowe Polsoft – a producer of
software for the bank and finance sector and the centre for software testing, WINUEL –
producer of solutions for the energy sector, Max Elektronik SA – a producer of software
based on modern information technology (including Java Computing).
More information available at: http://www.sygnity.pl
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Additional information is provided by:
Michał Michalski
Spokesman of Sygnity SA
Al. Jerozolimskie 180
02-486 Warszawa
tel. (22) 571 11 25, kom: 504 142 034
fax (22) 571 11 01
e-mail: mmichalski@sygnity.pl