Social Security Subsidy Policy for Older Persons with Employment Difficulties

Social insurance subsidy policy for older persons with employment difficulties means that in order to encourage persons with employment difficulties to take up flexible employment and reduce the pressure on them to pay social insurance premiums in their individual capacity, or in order to reduce the employing cost of enterprises and encourage them to take on persons with employment difficulties for employment, the above-mentioned individuals or units are subsidized for a certain amount of expenses by implementing the practice of first paying and then making up for the expenses after paying the social insurance premiums.

I. The contents of social insurance subsidies include:

1. Unemployment insurance subsidies and grants;

2. Subsidies for accidental disasters and diseases;

3. Old-age subsidies, incapacity and survivor's pensions;

4. Subsidies for family assistance fees, medicines and health care costs.

2. The social insurance subsidized persons include:

1. Unemployed persons who are laid off from state-owned enterprises, hold the Re-employment Preferential Certificate and have been employed by a service-oriented enterprise and have signed a labor contract with the enterprise with a term of more than three years will be granted a three-year subsidy for pension insurance and unemployment insurance paid by the government;

2. The oldest employment difficulties (men over 50 years old and women over 40 years old), holding the Re-employment Preferential Certificate, who have been absorbed by the public welfare positions developed by their communities, will receive pension and unemployment insurance subsidies paid by the government from the date of signing the labor contract.

Third, if the employer terminates the labor relationship with you in advance due to reasons other than difficulties in production and operation and through no fault of your own, you may appeal to the municipal or district (county or city) labor security administrative department, and if the labor security administrative department verifies the case, the enterprise you work for shall continue to pay the pension insurance and unemployment insurance premiums for you until the expiration of the subsidy period.

Legal Basis

The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 7 The administrative department of social insurance under the State Council is responsible for the administration of social insurance throughout the country, and other relevant departments of the State Council are responsible for the relevant work of social insurance within their respective areas of responsibility.

The social insurance administrative departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for the administration of social insurance in their respective administrative areas, and other relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for the relevant social insurance work within their respective areas of responsibility. Article 9 The trade unions shall safeguard the lawful rights and interests of employees in accordance with the law, and shall have the right to participate in the study of important matters of social insurance, and to participate in the Social Insurance Supervisory Committee to supervise matters relating to the social insurance rights and interests of employees.