Pursuant to Act No. 437/2004 Coll. on compensation for pain and compensation for making social application more difficult and amending Act No. 273/1994 Coll. on health insurance, the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic will determine the amount of compensation for pain and compensation for the complaint of social application by the measure announced in the Slovak Code of Laws by publishing a notice of its issue no later than 31 May of the relevant calendar year.
The amount of compensation for pain and the amount of compensation for making social application more difficult shall be determined by the amount of 2% of the average monthly salary of the employee in the economy of the Slovak Republic as determined by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic for the calendar year preceding the year in which the claim for compensation was made, per point and the resulting amount shall be rounded up to the whole dozens of crowns.
According to the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, the average nominal monthly wage of an employee of the Slovak economy reached 17 274 in 2005 Sk.
Amount of compensation for pain and compensation for making social application more difficult for the period 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006 for one point is 345,48 Sk, rounding up the resulting amount after multiplying by the number of points listed in the Annex to the Act.