Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych (Social Insurance Institution, abbreviation ZUS) - Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 state organization responsible for social insurance

Social insurance

Social insurance is any government-sponsored program with the following four characteristics:* the benefits, eligibility requirements and other aspects of the program are defined by statute;...

 matters, operating since 1934. ZUS is supervised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. ZUS carries out following tasks:

• establishing the entitlement to social insurance benefits,
• paying-out of social insurance benefits,
• assessment and collection of social insurance and health insurance contributions and contributions to the Labour Fund and the Fund of Guaranteed Employee Benefits,
• maintaining individual accounts of the insured and accounts of contribution
  Contribution
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  payers.

ZUS is organized into field organizational units which includes: branches, inspectorates and field offices . The national network of ZUS organizational units includes 325 units, of which 43 branch offices, 216 inspectorates and 66 local offices.

External links

• SOCIAL INSURANCE IN POLAND: information, facts - 2011 English language informational brochure by ZUS