Subject: RE: Meeting on July 15th at 2PM Tbs time
From: Maddalena Honorati <[email-masked]>
To: Nino Kvernadze <[email-masked]>, Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Lela Ghongadze <[email-masked]>, "Alicia C. Marguerie" <[email-masked]>, Djamshid Iriskulov <[email-masked]>, Natalie Godziashvili <[email-masked]>, Lia Tavadze <[email-masked]>, Volkan Cetinkaya <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:14:47 +0000

Dear Nino,

Many thanks. These are excellent news. We look forward to both revised POM and first draft of the Action Plan.

We had reviewed the documents Nino M. sent and we have still some clarification questions ( some  of the questions are included in the draft POM also and we hope are addressed in the revised POM you are working on).  I copy DM Barkalaia
for her information and inputs.

One-off benefit / informal workers and self-employed:

Please clarify what it means for a self-employed to “registered with Revenue Service”: does it people registered for corporate/business taxes ? does it mean individuals being in the
taxpayer database.

We understand there are two cases identified in the online registration system, self employed who are registered and the others (informal selfemployed or informal workers). We saw
indeed separate data monitoring provided in SSA administrative database (downloaded from the ministry website). However it seems that the transfer has been made
only to self-employed registered. Why? When are the unregistered selfemployed receive the transfer?

We understand that registration for the one-off benefit was only allowed up to July 1st . Please confirm if this is the case and whether there are plans to extend the window
for application.

Grateful if you could please provide information on the registration process for self-employed (in particular whether help was provided for opening bank accounts to those who do not
have one, and whether the information campaign made it clear that informal workers should not be worried to register).

It remains unclear how the final status of “specified status” people (self employed who provided documents, but the documents are not clear enough to decide whether they are eligible
or not) is decided.

In case the applicant is not in the taxpayers database and bank account info is correct –  is he required to register and pay taxes? The question relates to what was written on the registration process in one of the manuals you sent us  “ii. If the bank account
is correct, a message will be issued, please register the type of economic activity for registration and upload the documents proving self-employment. Then click the Finish button”.

Temporary benefit for vulnerable households (with score between 65,000 and 100,000)

Please confirm  whether the temporary benefits is only for households with score between the 65,001 and 100,000 who were in the SSA database before May 1st or it is also
for  households  that have registered in the database after May 1st  and are assessed with score in that range (we understand it takes a month to compute and verify the score).

If hh who register after May 1st are eligible to the temporary benefit, please clearly define the eligibility window: for example, as for the one-off benefit, would families
who register before July 1st and are subsequently assessed with eligible score be eligible to the temporary benefit?

Unemployment benefit

We noted from the data monitoring table in SSA administrative database (downloaded from the ministry’s website) that about 150,000 forma employees have been laid off in May and June.
This is a pretty high number corresponding to about 9% of the labor force in Georgia. Are these numbers confirmed by Revenue Service? Do you have more information on the sector of the employer and size of employer/firm.

As above, please clarify/confirm the eligibility criteria: are only workers laid off between May 4th and July 1, 2020 eligible to the benefits?

Is yes, is there a plan to extend the window of eligibility?

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Maddalena

From: Nino Kvernadze

Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 2:06 PM

To: Maddalena Honorati ; Volkan Cetinkaya ; [email-masked]

Cc: Lela Ghongadze ; Alicia C. Marguerie ; Djamshid Iriskulov ; Natalie Godziashvili ; Lia Tavadze

Subject: RE: Meeting on July 15th at 2PM Tbs time

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Dear Maddalena,

We are working within the Ministry to finalize the financial process description of POM. Not sure with the exact deadline, but Friday is the latest. However it can be tomorrow as well, depending on the availability
of time of our colleagues.

As for the data covenants, we had a very fruitful meeting and the first draft of the Action Plan,  which is in Georgian yet, is already prepared. It is under internal  review now. As you know PIU is facilitating
the process. The tentative deadline is as follows: Finalization of the first draft – Thursday 23,

Translation – Friday -24, Submission to the WB  – Monday 27.

Hope this response is useful at this stage.

Best regards,

Nino

From: Maddalena Honorati <[email-masked]>

Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 3:51 PM

To: Nino Kvernadze <[email-masked]>; Volkan Cetinkaya <[email-masked]>;
[email-masked]

Cc: Lela Ghongadze <[email-masked]>; Alicia C. Marguerie <[email-masked]>; Djamshid Iriskulov <[email-masked]>;
Natalie Godziashvili <[email-masked]>; Lia Tavadze <[email-masked]>

Subject: RE: Meeting on July 15th at 2PM Tbs time

Dear Nino,

Following up on the meeting last week, could you please update us on the status of the revised POM and when you will be able to share the final one addressing all our comments?

Also please let us know if the WB on the personal data protection met last week and which are the next steps and timeline.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Maddalena

From: Nino Moroshkina <[email-masked]>

Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 9:43 AM

To: Maddalena Honorati <[email-masked]>; Volkan Cetinkaya <[email-masked]>

Cc: Lela Ghongadze <[email-masked]>; Alicia C. Marguerie <[email-masked]>; Nino Kvernadze <[email-masked]>;
Djamshid Iriskulov <[email-masked]>; Natalie Godziashvili <[email-masked]>; Lia Tavadze <[email-masked]>

Subject: Meeting on July 15th at 2PM Tbs time

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Dear Colleagues,

As agreed, we will be having the meeting tomorrow, July 15th at 2 PM Tbs time.

There are two main topics to discuss:

1. Finalization of the POM

2. The Global Reimbursement Manual

I will be going to the ministry.

Lela will send us the Webex invite shortly.

Please feel free to expand the list of participants for the meeting.

Best regards, Nino