In Tianjin, Chongqing, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places, Zhejiang will "go against the trend" to reduce unemployment insurance rates.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (Zhejiang Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security) recently issued an announcement to solicit opinions from all walks of life on a normative document, involving the issue of reducing unemployment insurance rates.

The Notice of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Finance and Zhejiang Provincial Local Taxation Bureau on Relevant Issues Concerning the Adjustment of Unemployment Insurance Rate (draft for comment) proposes to adjust the unemployment insurance rate of the whole province from 3% to 2%. The employer shall pay the unemployment insurance premium according to 65438+ 0.5% of the total wages of the unit and 0.5% * * of the individual wages of employees.

The so-called social insurance rate refers to the proportion of social insurance premiums paid by units and individuals to wages. There are five statutory social insurances for urban workers in China, namely, basic old-age insurance for employees, basic medical insurance for employees, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance, of which the first three are paid by enterprises and employees, while the last two are paid by enterprises only. The basic old-age insurance rate is generally about 20% for the unit, 8% for individual workers, and 20% for urban individual industrial and commercial households and flexible employees; The basic medical insurance rate is about 6% for the unit and 2% for the individual employee; Unemployment insurance rate, unit 2%, employee 1%, migrant workers insured individuals do not pay; The unit rate of industrial injury insurance is between 0.5% and 2%; Maternity insurance, the unit rate does not exceed 0% of the total wages, and individuals do not pay.

According to the exposure draft of Zhejiang People's Social Welfare Department, if the unemployment insurance fund in the overall planning area fails to make ends meet due to the reduction of the rate, it will be paid by the local fund's balance over the years, and the insufficient part will be subsidized by the local finance according to regulations. At the same time, increase the adjustment of provincial unemployment insurance, and appropriately increase the subsidy ratio according to the overall regional unemployment insurance fund deficit, fund balance and financial situation over the years.

The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security said that this move aims to boost the transformation and upgrading of enterprises and establish a fairer and more sustainable unemployment insurance system.

The background of Zhejiang's downward adjustment of unemployment insurance rate is that recently, the media reported that China's social insurance rate is the highest in the world, and the payment based on the average social wage has increased year after year, which has become a burden for enterprises and individuals. Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security) publicly stated that it would appropriately reduce the social security rate.

According to Xinhua News Agency, since June 5438+ 10 this year, Tianjin, Chongqing, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places have raised the base standard of social security contributions, which has led to a general increase in the contributions of employers and individuals, but it has also caused some disputes.

65438 Xinhua News Agency1October 7 reported that according to the calculation of Bai Zhongen, a professor in Tsinghua University, the sum of the five statutory social insurance contributions in China is equivalent to 40% of the wage level, and even reaches 50% in some areas; China ranks first among 18 1 countries in the world, which is about twice the average level of the other three BRICS countries, three times that of the five Nordic countries, 2.8 times that of G7 countries and 4.6 times that of East Asian neighbors.

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