Housing accumulation fund refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units, social organizations and their employees.
1. The definition of housing provident fund includes the following five aspects:
2. Housing provident fund is only established in cities and towns, and the housing provident fund system is not established in rural areas;
3. Only on-the-job employees can establish the housing accumulation fund system. Urban unemployed residents and retired workers do not implement the housing provident fund system;
4. The housing accumulation fund consists of two parts, one part is paid by the employee's unit, and the other part is paid by the employee. After the employee's individual deposit is withheld by the unit, it will be deposited into the individual account of the housing provident fund together with the unit deposit;
5. The long-term nature of housing provident fund deposit. Once the housing provident fund system is established, employees must be paid continuously in accordance with the regulations during their employment, and shall not be suspended or interrupted except for employees' retirement or other circumstances stipulated in the Regulations on the Administration of Housing Provident Fund. It embodies the stability, unity, standardization and compulsion of housing provident fund;
6. Housing accumulation fund is a personal housing savings fund specially used by employees for housing consumption expenditure, which has two characteristics: accumulation and specificity.
Legal basis: Regulations on the Management of Housing Provident Fund
Article 16 The monthly deposit amount of employee housing provident fund shall be the average monthly salary of the employee 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.
Seventeenth new employees began to pay the housing provident fund from the second month of work, and the monthly deposit amount was the employee's own salary multiplied by the employee's housing provident fund deposit 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.