National Healthcare Security Administration, Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration , Guiding Opinions on Reducing Employee Basic Medical Insurance Premiums for a Period of Time

国家医疗保障局、财政部、国家税务总局关于阶段性减征职工基本医疗保险费的指导意见

March 08, 2020 | BY

Susan Mok

Employers' portion of medical insurance contributions is reduced during the coronavirus period

Issued: February 21, 2020

Main contents: Commencing from February 2020, provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps may guide the pooling regions in reducing the entity paid portion of employee basic medical insurance premiums by half for a period not to exceed five months (Article 1).

Related legislation: PRC Social Insurance Law

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