Is housing accumulation fund social security?

Housing accumulation fund does not belong to social security.

Housing provident fund belongs to the housing savings paid by employees for a long time, which is generally shared by units and employees. It can only be taken out when employees leave their jobs or terminate their labor contracts or buy real estate. In other cases, it is impossible to withdraw the housing provident fund.

1. Does the housing accumulation fund belong to social security?

Don't belong. Housing accumulation fund refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs and institutions, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and institutions, private non-enterprise units, social organizations and their employees. According to China's regulations, all enterprises, whether state-owned or private, must deposit and pay housing provident fund for their employees. The deposit ratio of employees and unit housing provident fund shall not be less than 5% of the average monthly salary of employees in the previous year; Conditional cities can appropriately increase the deposit ratio. The specific deposit ratio shall be drawn up by the Housing Provident Fund Management Committee and submitted to the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for approval after being audited by the people's governments at the corresponding levels. The monthly deposit base of urban individual industrial and commercial households and freelancers' housing provident fund is calculated in principle according to the average monthly tax revenue of the depositor in the previous year.

Second, the characteristics of housing provident fund

1, universal, urban workers, regardless of the nature of their work units, family income, and whether they have housing, must pay the housing provident fund in accordance with the regulations on the management of housing provident fund;

2, mandatory (policy), the unit does not apply for housing provident fund deposit registration or set up housing provident fund accounts for employees of the unit, the housing provident fund management center has the right to order it to handle within a time limit, if it fails to handle it within the time limit, it can be punished according to the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Management of Housing Provident Fund, and may apply to the people's court for compulsory execution;

3, welfare, in addition to the housing provident fund paid by employees, the unit has to pay a certain amount for employees, and the interest rate of housing provident fund loans is lower than that of commercial loans;

4. Repayment: the employee retires, resigns, or completely loses the ability to work and terminates the labor relationship with the unit, and the household registration moves out or settles abroad. The paid housing provident fund will be returned to individual employees.

Third, the nature of housing provident fund.

1, security, the establishment of employee housing provident fund system, providing a guarantee for employees to solve housing problems faster and better;

2. Mutual assistance, the establishment of housing provident fund system can effectively establish and form a mechanism and channel for workers with housing to help workers without housing. Housing provident fund provides financial assistance to workers without housing, which reflects the mutual assistance of housing provident fund to workers;

3. In the long run, every urban employee must pay personal housing provident fund from the date of joining the work to the date of retirement or termination of labor relations; The employee's unit should also pay the housing provident fund for employee subsidies as required.

The so-called "five insurances and one fund" in China refers to five basic social insurances and housing accumulation fund. Provident funds do not belong to social security. Housing provident fund is paid by the unit and its employees. Only when it meets the conditions can it be taken out, and no matter what unit, it is necessary to pay the housing provident fund for employees.

legal ground

Regulations on the administration of housing provident fund

Article 13

The housing provident fund management center shall set up a housing provident fund account in the entrusted bank. The unit shall register the housing provident fund deposit with the housing provident fund management center, and go through the formalities for the establishment of housing provident fund accounts for the employees of the unit. Each employee can only have one housing provident fund account. The housing provident fund management center shall establish a detailed account of employee housing provident fund to record the deposit and withdrawal of employee individual housing provident fund.

Article 14

The newly established unit shall, within 30 days from the date of establishment, go to the housing provident fund management center for registration of housing provident fund deposit, and within 20 days from the date of registration, go through the formalities for the establishment of housing provident fund accounts for its employees. Where a unit is merged, divided, revoked, dissolved or bankrupt, the original unit or liquidation organization shall, within 30 days from the date of the above-mentioned situation, go to the housing provident fund management center to handle the change or cancellation of registration, and handle the transfer or seal-up procedures for the employees of the unit within 20 days from the date of completing the change or cancellation of registration.

Article 15

Units employing employees shall, within 30 days from the date of employment, go to the housing provident fund management center for deposit registration, and go through the formalities for the establishment or transfer of employee housing provident fund accounts. Where a unit terminates the labor relationship with its employees, it shall, within 30 days from the date of termination of the labor relationship, go to the housing provident fund management center for change registration, and go through the formalities of transferring or sealing the employee housing provident fund account.

Article 16

The monthly deposit amount of employee housing provident fund is the average monthly salary of employees in the previous year multiplied by the deposit ratio of employee housing provident fund. The monthly deposit amount of housing provident fund paid by the unit for employees is the average monthly salary of employees in the previous year multiplied by the proportion of housing provident fund paid by the unit.

Article 17

The new employee starts to pay the housing provident fund from the second month after joining the work, and the monthly payment amount is the employee's own salary multiplied by the employee's housing provident fund payment ratio. The newly transferred employees of the unit shall pay the housing provident fund from the date when the transferred employees pay their wages, and the monthly deposit amount shall be the employee's monthly salary multiplied by the employee's housing provident fund deposit ratio.

Article 18

The deposit ratio of employees and unit housing provident fund shall not be less than 5% of the average monthly salary of employees in the previous year; Conditional cities can appropriately increase the deposit ratio. The specific deposit ratio shall be drawn up by the Housing Provident Fund Management Committee and submitted to the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for approval after being audited by the people's governments at the corresponding levels.

Article 19

The housing provident fund paid by individual employees shall be withheld and remitted from their wages by their units every month. The unit shall remit the housing provident fund paid by the unit and remitted for the employees to the housing provident fund account within 5 days from the date of monthly payment of employees' wages, and the entrusted bank shall include it in the employee housing provident fund account.

Article 20

The unit shall pay the housing provident fund in full and on time, and shall not pay it overdue or underpaid. Units with real difficulties in depositing housing provident fund can reduce the proportion of deposit or defer payment after discussion and adoption by the workers' congress or trade union of the unit, and after examination by the housing provident fund management center and approval by the housing provident fund management committee; After the economic benefits of the unit improve, the deposit ratio will be increased or the overdue payment will be postponed.