What does the social insurance agency mean?

The social insurance agency is a functional institution for the state or society to implement administrative and institutional management of social insurance.

The establishment of social insurance agencies is determined by the social insurance management system. Due to the compulsory, mutual assistance, sociality and welfare of social insurance, social insurance agencies must be non-profit social institutions.

The social insurance management system is generally centralized management, that is, the establishment of institutions adopts the way of establishing a bottom-up and self-contained social insurance agency system nationwide to achieve the purpose of unified collection, adjustment, centralized management and application of social insurance funds.

Extended data:

Social insurance institutions have the following three functions:

1. Provide social insurance services: services include: social insurance registration, personal rights and interests record, treatment payment, file management, consulting services, etc. For example, Article 8 stipulates that social insurance agencies provide social insurance services and are responsible for social insurance registration, personal rights and interests recording, social insurance benefits payment, etc.

2. Managing social insurance affairs, mainly including: checking the social insurance payment base, determining the employer's work-related injury payment rate, and signing agreements with designated service agencies. For example, article 58 stipulates that if social insurance registration has not been completed, the social insurance agency shall verify the amount to be paid. Another example is the second paragraph of Article 34: Social insurance agencies determine the employer's rate according to the employer's use of work-related injury insurance funds, the incidence of work-related injuries and the industry's rate level.

3. Related management of social insurance funds: mainly reflected in: First, responsible for the payment and settlement of social insurance funds; Second, prepare the draft budget and final accounts of funds. Article 67 of the Social Insurance Law stipulates that the preparation, examination and approval of the draft budget and final accounts of the social insurance fund shall be carried out in accordance with the law and the provisions of the State Council.

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