Recently, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Provincial Department of Finance, and the Provincial Taxation Bureau jointly issued the “Notice on Continuing to Implement Unemployment Insurance Policies for Stabilizing Jobs and Benefiting the People.” The notice stipulates that enterprises participating in the insurance program, which have paid unemployment insurance premiums in full for more than 12 months and have not laid off employees or have a layoff rate not exceeding the national urban surveyed unemployment rate control target for 2024, are eligible for unemployment insurance stability returns.
For insured enterprises with 30 or fewer employees, if the layoff rate does not exceed 20% of the total number of insured employees, they can also enjoy this benefit. Large enterprises will receive a refund of 30% of the actual unemployment insurance premiums paid in the previous year, while small, medium, and micro enterprises will receive a refund of 60%.
Social organizations, foundations, social service institutions, law firms, accounting firms, and individual industrial and commercial households participating in insurance in the form of units are also subject to the same policy. For those with an average of 300 or more insured people in 2024, 30% of the funds will be refunded; for those with fewer than 300 insured people, 60% of the funds will be refunded. The stability return funds can be used for employee living allowances, payment of social insurance premiums, job transfer training, skills improvement training, etc., to stabilize employment positions and reduce production and operation cost expenditures. This policy will be implemented until December 31, 2025.
Hebei Province will continue to implement the skill improvement subsidy policy, providing skill improvement subsidies to in-service employees of enterprises or those receiving unemployment insurance benefits who have participated in insurance and paid premiums for one year (inclusive) or more and have obtained vocational qualification certificates or vocational skill level certificates for skilled personnel.
According to the notice, the province will also ensure proper security for older unemployed individuals. It will continue to distribute unemployment insurance benefits, basic medical insurance (including maternity insurance) fees paid on behalf of others, and temporary price subsidies and other living benefits. Proactive services will be strengthened, and policy information and application channels will be pushed to unemployed individuals who meet the conditions for claiming unemployment insurance benefits through text messages, mini-programs, official accounts, etc. The results will be fed back in a timely manner after the review is completed.
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