Influence of social security extension on employees

The extension of social security has no effect on employees. Delaying payment of social insurance premiums will not affect their basic rights and interests. Because according to the regulations, enterprises applying for holdover of social insurance premiums must fulfill the obligation of withholding and remitting individual contributions of employees according to law, and the individual rights and interests of employees cannot be affected by holdover of social insurance premiums. In other words, the part that employees should pay is still paid as usual. Moreover, if employees apply for pension insurance benefits and handle business such as relationship transfer during the deferred payment period, the enterprise shall make up the deferred basic pension insurance premium for employees. Expansion: On May 12, 2022, the State Council Press Office held a routine briefing on the State Council policy. At the meeting, relevant personnel introduced in detail the unemployment insurance fund's policy of improving skills and preventing unemployment, saying that the document clearly stipulated that "Five will not affect", that is, during the deferred payment of unemployment insurance premium, enterprises will not be affected to enjoy the policy of reducing unemployment insurance rates in stages and returning to work stably; Does not affect the insured workers to enjoy the skills upgrading subsidy policy; Does not affect the insured unemployed people to enjoy unemployment insurance and unemployment relief and other related benefits. During the holdover period of work-related injury insurance premium, it will not affect the enterprise's policy of reducing the rate of work-related injury insurance and the treatment of workers' work-related injury insurance. During the holdover period of endowment insurance premium, if employees apply for endowment insurance benefits, the enterprise will pay the endowment insurance premium for them, which will also not affect the endowment insurance benefits of employees.

Since September 2022, all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as regions) can further expand the implementation scope of the holdover policy according to the epidemic situation and social insurance funds in the region, covering all small and medium-sized enterprises in the region that are greatly affected by the epidemic and have difficulties in production and operation, individual industrial and commercial households that participate in the insurance in the form of units, institutions that participate in the basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees and various social organizations, so that the phased holdover social insurance premium policy can benefit more market participants. Local social insurance agencies shall, when providing social security payment inquiries and issuing payment certificates, determine that enterprises are in a normal payment state during the period of deferred payment and overdue payment according to policies and regulations, and shall not default. In 2022, social security can be postponed until the end of 2023, when the policy of deferred payment of social insurance premiums expires, and enterprises can be allowed to pay deferred social insurance premiums by stages or month by month before the end of 2023. Free of late fees during the overdue period.

According to Article 7 of the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Unemployment Insurance and Improving Unemployment Prevention Skills, the policy of reducing the rate and delaying the payment of social insurance premiums is implemented. Continue to implement the policy of 1 year to reduce unemployment insurance and industrial injury insurance rates in stages until April 30, 2023. For catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation, highways, waterways, and railway transport enterprises, the policy of delaying payment of old-age insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance premiums will be implemented in stages. Among them, the holdover period of endowment insurance premium is 3 months, the holdover period of unemployment insurance and work-related injury insurance premium shall not exceed 1 year, and the late payment fee shall be exempted during the holdover period. Individual industrial and commercial households and all kinds of flexible employees who participate in the basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees in their personal capacity may voluntarily postpone the payment of old-age insurance premiums until the end of 2023 if they have difficulties in paying them in 2022.