Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a press conference for the fourth quarter of 2022 on November 18th to introduce relevant information.
In 2022, a total of 271.3 billion yuan was released to stabilize the post.
In 2022, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security successively issued a series of phased and combined policies and measures to help enterprises stabilize their posts in three rounds of "slowing down, replenishing and expanding" to ensure stable employment of market players. In this regard, Gui Zhen, Director of the Unemployment Insurance Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said at the press conference that the overall effect of the package of unemployment insurance policies and measures to help enterprises stabilize their posts was remarkable. In 2022, a total of 271.3 billion yuan was released to stabilize their posts.
In 2022, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security increased the efforts to reduce fees and delay payment. On the basis of continuing the policy of reducing the unemployment insurance premium rate for one year, we will implement the policy of delaying the payment of unemployment insurance units by enterprises in difficult industries and small and medium-sized enterprises affected by the epidemic. By embedding the collection ratio into the information system, we can basically realize the "direct exchange and direct access" of reducing the rate and the "instant application and enjoyment" of deferred payment. Last year, a total of 159 billion yuan was reduced for enterprises by reducing unemployment insurance premiums. At the same time, encourage enterprises not to lay off employees and reduce layoffs, and greatly increase the proportion of returning stable jobs, raising the proportion of returning small and medium-sized enterprises from 60% to 90%, and large enterprises from 30% to 50%. All localities adopt the new model of "free application and instant enjoyment", and directly distribute funds to eligible enterprises through big data comparison. Last year, a total of 7.87 million enterprises were paid 49.7 billion yuan of stable post return funds, twice as much as the previous year, and small and micro enterprises benefited significantly.
Director of the unemployment insurance department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Gui Zhen: Innovatively introduce a one-time subsidy policy for job retention training, and continuously expand the scope of benefits. For all insured enterprises in areas with medium and high-risk epidemics and five enterprises in poor industries in areas without medium and high-risk epidemics, subsidies will be paid according to the standard that each insured employee does not exceed that of 500 yuan, so as to support enterprises to retain their jobs. Since the implementation of the policy for seven months, a total of 30.3 billion yuan has been granted to 5.3 million enterprises to stay in work.
Gui Zhen said that in terms of encouraging enterprises to absorb the employment of college students, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has innovatively introduced a one-time subsidy policy for job expansion. For enterprises that recruit ordinary college graduates to sign labor contracts and participate in unemployment insurance, the subsidy for job expansion will be issued according to the standard of no more than 1,500 yuan per person to support enterprises to actively expand their jobs. According to the employment situation, the scope of the policy will be relaxed to unemployed college graduates and registered unemployed youth aged 16-24 within two years after leaving school. All localities have established a mechanism for comparing the identity information of insured enterprises and college students, accurately screening and actively distributing them. Since the graduation season, a total of 2.7 billion yuan has been distributed to 520,000 enterprises, benefiting 1.92 million college graduates. In addition, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has broadened the scope of the subsidy policy for skills upgrading, and granted subsidies of no more than 1000 yuan, 1,500 yuan and 2,000 yuan to insured workers and those receiving unemployment insurance benefits who have obtained primary, intermediate and advanced vocational qualification certificates or vocational skill level certificates respectively. Support seven eastern provinces (cities) to use unemployment insurance funds for vocational training subsidies, vocational skills appraisal subsidies and other expenses. At present, 29.6 billion yuan has been spent on skills upgrading.
Director of the unemployment insurance department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Gui ZhenThe bonus of unemployment insurance policy to help enterprises stabilize their posts has been released quickly. Beneficiary enterprises generally use the funds for stabilizing their posts to pay social security fees, carry out training, and distribute living allowances, which has offset the labor costs, eased the operating pressure, stabilized the workforce, and boosted development confidence. Insured enterprises, while assuming the social responsibility of stabilizing jobs, also actively expanded their posts. Last year, 238 million employees participated in unemployment insurance nationwide, an increase of 8.49 million over the same period of last year. In 2023, our department will optimize various policies to help enterprises and benefit enterprises according to the situation, and support enterprises to develop and stabilize employment more accurately and effectively.
In 2022, 88.7 billion yuan of unemployment insurance benefits was distributed nationwide.
Expanding the coverage of unemployment insurance has played an active role in grasping the bottom line of people’s livelihood. In 2022, a total of 10.58 million unemployed people were given unemployment insurance benefits of 88.7 billion yuan in different projects. This year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will continue to strengthen the basic living security for the unemployed in difficulty and pay unemployment insurance benefits in full and on time.
Gui Zhen, director of the unemployment insurance department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that on the basis of timely and full payment of unemployment insurance benefits, one-time living allowances for migrant workers and other routine living allowances, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is working with relevant departments to study and continue the implementation of the unemployment insurance coverage expansion policy. At the same time, the impact of the epidemic on the lives of unemployed people and the balance of funds in various places should be considered as a whole, step by step, and the standard of unemployment insurance benefits should be gradually raised. On the basis of paying basic medical insurance premiums for those who receive unemployment insurance benefits, we will increase the payment of maternity insurance premiums to fully protect the medical and reproductive rights of unemployed people. When prices rise, we will start the linkage mechanism of price subsidies and issue temporary price subsidies to better protect the basic livelihood of the unemployed. For older unemployed people who are less than one year away from the statutory retirement age, if they are still unemployed after the expiration of the pension period, they can continue to pay unemployment insurance money to the statutory retirement age. For retired soldiers who fail to find employment in time, after applying for job registration, they can enjoy unemployment insurance benefits in accordance with the regulations.
Director of the unemployment insurance department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Gui Zhen: We will continue to carry out the action of "Smooth Access and Safe Handling" in unemployment insurance benefits, and carry out the service mode of "three exemptions". "Free to run and get it", unemployment insurance benefits is unblocked to apply for a unified entrance to the country, and unemployed people can apply at any time and place without going to the scene to handle it. "Do it without a permit", completely cancel the certification materials, application time limit, binding conditions and additional obligations, and unemployed people can apply with their ID cards or social security cards. "Free boarding and instant payment" will optimize the application process. Unemployed people can apply for unemployment insurance benefits first and then register for unemployment, and apply for unemployment benefits without registering for unemployment.
In addition, Gui Zhen said that as the Spring Festival approaches, people in need can log in to unemployment insurance benefits to apply for the national unified entrance (si.12333.gov.cn), and they can also apply on WeChat and Alipay, search for the "electronic social security card" applet, go to the home page and click on the "unemployment insurance benefits application" service. You can also download the Pocket 12333APP, and under the column of "Services", select the services of "Online Application for Unemployment Insurance" and "Online Application for Unemployment Subsidies" in "Unemployment Insurance", or you can search for the service name and directly handle it.
The coverage of endowment insurance expands the overall balance of fund income and expenditure.
The national overall planning of basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees has been implemented for one year. What is the current progress? In this regard, Qi Tao, deputy director of the Pension Insurance Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said at the press conference that since the implementation of the national overall plan in January last year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and relevant departments have steadily promoted various reforms, further expanded the coverage of pension insurance, and the overall balance of fund income and expenditure. The system is running smoothly.
Qi Tao said that the implementation of the national overall planning of basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees is conducive to further improving the old-age insurance system and promoting a fairer and more sustainable old-age insurance system. In 2022, the policy will be basically unified nationwide, and the pension insurance rights of workers and retirees will be better protected. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has guided all localities to gradually liberalize the household registration restrictions for flexible employees and include more flexible employees in the scope of old-age insurance protection. At the same time, increase inter-provincial mutual assistance. In 2022, the inter-provincial transfer fund totaled 244 billion yuan, which effectively balanced the current income and expenditure pressure of inter-regional funds and made the use of funds more efficient. Through the transfer of funds, pension payment is more secure.
Qi Tao, Deputy Director, Department of Endowment Insurance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social SecurityThe central and local pension insurance expenditure responsibility sharing mechanism has been established, the central financial subsidy has been further increased, and the local financial pension insurance investment mechanism has been improved. Continuously improve the level of pension insurance management services and the accessibility of public services. An information system adapted to the overall planning of the whole country has been built, and centralized data management and linkage between departments and provinces have been realized, so as to better "record, guarantee and serve a lifetime". Constantly improve the functions of the national unified social insurance public service platform, and 83 national and cross-regional social insurance services have been opened, which is more than 30 items more than that in 2021. The operation is more convenient, and it is convenient for insured enterprises and insured personnel to "run across provinces" and "run through one network", with a total of more than 4.3 billion visits.
In addition, Qi Tao also said that on November 25 last year, the individual pension system was implemented in 36 leading cities (regions), and the overall operation is stable and orderly. By the end of 2022, the number of individual pension participants was 19.54 million, and the number of contributors was 6.13 million, with a total contribution of 14.2 billion yuan.
Qi Tao, Deputy Director, Department of Endowment Insurance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social SecurityPersonal pension is a supplementary old-age insurance system supported by government policies, voluntary participation by individuals and market-oriented operation. It is an important part of a multi-level and multi-pillar old-age insurance system. In the next step, in accordance with the State Council’s plan that individual pensions should be given one year in advance, the Ministry will, together with relevant departments, constantly improve relevant policies and actively and steadily promote the implementation of the individual pension system.
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security carried out measures to facilitate the qualification certification of pension insurance benefits
Carrying out the qualification certification for receiving pension insurance benefits is an important measure to ensure the safety of the fund. In order to further improve the convenience service level, at present, a new authentication mechanism based on information comparison, social service and remote self-service authentication has been initially established in various places, and efforts have been made to realize the integration of authentication in service and intangible authentication, so as to minimize the disturbance to the elderly.
Qi Tao, deputy director of the Department of Pension Insurance of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that the social security agency can share data with the public security, civil affairs, health and transportation departments, and can complete the certification without any operation. In 2022, about one-third of the retirees in China will be certified through data comparison, and this proportion will be higher and higher in the future.
Qi Tao, Deputy Director, Department of Endowment Insurance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: The elderly can carry out face recognition authentication through the website of the national social insurance public service platform or official mobile phone applications such as "Pocket 12333". Those who live abroad can also complete the authentication through the mobile phone application of "Consul China" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (You can also) naturally complete the certification in health, sports and other activities carried out by grassroots organizations such as communities and villages. The elderly and special groups with mobility difficulties can apply for on-site certification, and social security agencies will provide on-site services.
Qi Tao said that at present, all localities are carrying out this year’s qualification certification in a standardized and orderly manner, and the requirements are the same as in previous years. It should be noted that the certification can only be carried out once in 12 natural months, and it is not necessary to rush to a centralized time period.
(CCTV reporter Song Wei Wang Yiyi)