Is the unemployment benefit paid by the company or the social security bureau?

1. Unemployment benefits generally refer to unemployment insurance. Unemployment insurance refers to the basic living expenses paid by unemployment insurance agencies to eligible unemployed people according to law, and it is a temporary compensation for unemployed people to lose their wage income during unemployment. The purpose of unemployment insurance is to protect the basic needs of the unemployed. Unemployment insurance is paid from the unemployment insurance fund according to law.

2. Unemployment insurance refers to a system enforced by the state through legislation. Employers, employees' individual contributions and state financial subsidies jointly raise funds to establish an unemployment insurance fund to provide material help to workers who have temporarily suspended their lives due to unemployment, to ensure their basic livelihood, and to create conditions for their re-employment through vocational training and employment introduction.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Forty-eighth unemployed people in the period of receiving unemployment insurance benefits, to participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits.

The basic medical insurance premiums payable by the unemployed are paid from the unemployment insurance fund, and individuals do not pay the basic medical insurance premiums.

Article 50 The employing unit shall issue a certificate of termination or dissolution of labor relations for the unemployed in time, and inform the social insurance agency of the list of unemployed persons within 15 days from the date of termination or dissolution of labor relations.

Unemployed persons shall, with the certificate of termination or rescission of labor relations issued by their own units, go to the designated public employment service institutions for unemployment registration in time.

Unemployed people with unemployment registration certificate and personal identity documents, to the social insurance agencies to receive unemployment insurance procedures. The time limit for receiving unemployment insurance benefits shall be calculated from the date of unemployment registration.