The legislative body on December 15 passed the state social insurance budget law and the mandatory health insurance funds law for 2018 in the final reading, IPN reports.

The revenues of the state social insurance budget next year will total 19.247 billion lei, 34.8% of which will be transfers from the state budget. The state social insurance contributions were planned at 12.546 billion lei. The state social insurance contribution remained at the level of 29%, of which 23% is paid by employers and 6% by employees. The contribution to the remuneration fund intended for persons employed based on an individual work contract in agriculture was kept at 22%, 6% of which will be subsidized from the state budget.

The individual entrepreneurs, lawyers, notaries, bailiffs and other persons who work on their own and the holders of entrepreneur’s patent next year will pay a contribution of 8,424 lei. The same sum will be paid by private individuals for voluntary insurance, based on an individual contract signed with the National House of Social Insurance. The fixed insurance tax for farmland owners or lessees who cultivate the land individually will be 2,148 lei.

The revenues and expenditure of the mandatory health insurance funds for next year were projected at 6.659 billion lei each. The mandatory health insurance premium in the form of percentage contribution paid from the salary and other recompenses remained at the level of 9%, which is 4.5% for employers and as much for employees. The premium in fixed sum also remained at this year’s level of 4,056 lei. The 50% reduction if the health policy is purchased by April 1 was kept. The reduction for farmland owners is of 75%.