Is it compulsory to buy endowment insurance?

Legal analysis: Endowment insurance is a kind of social security, which is legally mandatory, and the unit must handle social security for employees.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law.

Eleventh basic old-age insurance to implement the combination of social pooling and individual accounts. The basic old-age insurance fund consists of employers, individual contributions and government subsidies.

Article 12 The employing unit shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium according to the proportion of the total wages of employees stipulated by the state and record it in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund. Employees shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium in accordance with the proportion of wages stipulated by the state and record it in their personal accounts. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees who have participated in the basic old-age insurance shall pay the basic old-age insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations and record them in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund and individual accounts respectively.

Thirteenth employees of state-owned enterprises and institutions to participate in the basic old-age insurance, the basic old-age insurance premiums payable during the payment period shall be borne by the government. When the basic old-age insurance fund is insufficient to pay, the government gives subsidies.