From collection to redistribution, the new mini-site " what are social contributions used for? »Invites you to discover the financing of social protection through 3 questions:

The answers are very succinct.

Thus, the mini-site indicates that employers, individual employers, employees and self-employed workers contribute to URSSAF (or MSA, if they come under the agricultural social protection scheme). The social model is financed by social contributions:

22% of the salary for employee contributions; 45% of the salary for employer contributions.

As an employer, you pay employer and employee contributions to URSSAF.

The site specifies that URSSAF redistributes the contributions collected to more than 900 organizations.

They finance the social protection which protects people in particular in the event of illness, maternity, work accident, unemployment, retirement.

It is also recalled the various missions of URSSAF, in particular the accompaniment and support of companies in difficulty (adjustment of payment deadlines).

URSSAF is also there to guarantee the sustainability of our protection system. And that goes through verification and control, as well as the fight against fraud, hidden work.

At the end