Housing accumulation fund is a long-term housing deposit paid by units and their employees, and it is the main form of monetization, socialization and legalization of housing distribution. The housing accumulation fund system is an important social security system for housing stipulated by national laws, which is mandatory, mutually supportive and guaranteed. Units and individual employees must fulfill their obligations to pay housing provident fund according to law. The housing provident fund paid by individual employees and the housing provident fund paid by the unit shall be stored in special accounts and owned by individual employees. The units here include state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units and social organizations.

Second, the legal characteristics of housing provident fund

First, it is cumulative, that is, although the housing provident fund is an integral part of employees' wages, it is not paid in cash, but must be deposited in a special account opened by the housing provident fund management center in the entrusted bank, and special account management is implemented. The second is specificity. The housing accumulation fund shall be earmarked for special purposes and can only be used for the purchase, construction, overhaul of self-occupied housing or the payment of rent during storage. Only when the employee retires, dies, completely loses the ability to work and terminates the labor relationship with the unit or moves out of the original city can the housing provident fund be withdrawn from the account.

Third, the management of housing provident fund.

The management of housing provident fund shall follow the principles of decision-making of housing provident fund management committee, operation of housing provident fund management center, storage of special bank accounts and financial supervision.

4. The use of housing provident fund

The housing accumulation fund shall be used for the purchase, construction, renovation and overhaul of owner-occupied housing by employees, and no unit or individual may use it for other purposes.

In any of the following circumstances, employees may withdraw the storage balance in the employee housing provident fund account:

(a) the purchase, construction, renovation and overhaul of owner-occupied housing;

(2) retirement;

(three) completely lose the ability to work, and terminate the labor relationship with the unit;

(4) Having left the country to settle down;

(5) Repaying the principal and interest of the house purchase loan;

(six) the rent exceeds the prescribed proportion of family wage income.

In accordance with the provisions of items (2), (3) and (4) of the preceding paragraph, the employee housing provident fund account shall be cancelled at the same time.

If an employee dies or is declared dead, the employee's heirs and legatees may withdraw the storage balance in the employee's housing provident fund account; If there is no heir or legatee, the storage balance in the employee housing provident fund account shall be included in the value-added income of the housing provident fund.

Workers who have paid housing provident fund can apply for housing provident fund loans to the housing provident fund management center when purchasing, building, renovating or overhauling their own houses.

The housing provident fund management center shall make a decision on whether to grant loans within 15 days from the date of accepting the application, and notify the applicant; Where a loan is granted, the entrusted bank shall go through the loan formalities.