Kuwait: 60 plus expats issue back to square one as court rejects PAM decision

The issue of non-graduate expatriates who are 60 years and above is again coming back to square one as the court rejects the PAM decision which mandates payment of 500 dinars for private health insurance and 250 dinars residence renewal fee.

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After a long period of confusion, 45 days back, PAM arrived at a decision to allow this category of expatriates to renew their work permits with a payment of 500 dinars for private health insurance and 250 dinars’ residence renewal fee. However, the court on Tuesday, uphold the decision of a lower court that had ruled the PAM Administrative Decision No. 27 of 2021 null and void.

The Appeals court verdict also issued a ruling to end discrimination between business owners in issuing work permits, in addition to canceling 56 other articles covered by the law. The ruling of the Court of Appeals is the fourth of its kind in favor of the members of the Kuwait Entrepreneurs Association, who had earlier obtained 3 “first degree” judicial rulings to cancel the administrative decision issued by the “Manpower”.