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The national welfare policy in Poland is the responsibility of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and the Social Security Institution (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, ZUS) acts as its executive agency. One of the elements of the Polish social security system is a scheme of financial payments, financed within the social insurance framework from the Social Insurance Fund (Fundusz Ubezpieczeń Społecznych), which comprises: retirement insurance, pension insurance, sickness and maternity insurance as well as occupational accident and occupational illness insurance. There is a family payments scheme, which exists in addition to the social insurance scheme, offering family benefits financed from the State Budget, and also an unemployment benefit scheme financed from the separate Labour Fund (Fundusz Pracy) in Poland. Social security for citizens of EEA (EU + Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein) countriesSince Poland is a member state of the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA), its social security scheme is coordinated with those of other member states. It means that in the EEA there are common rules, which prevent the situation when a person moving within a territory of several countries of the EEA is subject to the social security legislation of more than one country or no country. The coordination is, above all, defined by two regulations: Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community and Regulation (EEC) No 574/72. However, these Regulations do not harmonise but co-ordinate the social security schemes of the EEA states, i.e. it does not replace different national social security systems with a single European scheme. If you arrive in Poland for the purpose of employment, the European coordination of social security schemes gives you the following benefits:
How does the European coordination of social security schemes work in practice? 1. If you do not have social insurance in your country, you have to pay social security contributions in Poland in the same way as Polish employees. Of course your contributions paid here will be summed up with all contributions paid before and after in other EU countries. 3. If you are employed in your country and your employer delegates you to a Polish institution for a period of time not longer than 12 months, you will still pay social security contribution in your home country. In this case E-101 form is obligatory. You should get this form from your employer and bring it to Poland. If you are delegated for a period longer than 12 months, you have to contribute towards social security scheme in Poland. The E-101 form is a document confirming that you are an employee covered by the social security system of another country and you are not under the Polish social security law. The standard form can be obtained from your employer in your country. It is available in each language of the EEA countries.
Social security for citizens of non-EEA countriesIf you are a non-EU or a non-EEA Member State citizen working in Poland you have to pay full social security contribution according to the Polish Social Insurance System. Useful links |
