Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on printing and distributing the Measures for the Administration of Employment Subsidy Funds
All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, the finance department (bureau), the human resources and social security department (bureau), the Finance Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau:
In order to promote the implementation of the employment priority strategy, implement various employment and entrepreneurship support policies, standardize the management of employment subsidy funds, and improve the efficiency of the use of funds, we revised the Measures for the Administration of Employment Subsidies (Caishe [2017] No.164). It is hereby issued, please follow it.
Annex: Measures for the Administration of Employment Subsidy Funds
Ministry of Finance Human Resources and Social Security Department
December 20, 2023
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Measures for the administration of employment subsidy funds
Chapter I General Principles
Article 1 In order to promote the implementation of the employment priority strategy, implement various employment and entrepreneurship support policies, standardize the management of employment subsidy funds, and improve the efficiency in the use of funds, according to the Budget Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Employment Promotion Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Regulations on the Implementation of the Budget Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on the Full Implementation of Budget Performance Management, and the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the Reform Plan for the Division of Central and Local Common Financial Affairs and Expenditure Responsibilities in the Basic Public Services (Guo Ban Fa [
Article 2 The employment subsidy funds mentioned in these Measures are special funds set up by the people’s governments at or above the county level, managed by the financial departments at the same level in conjunction with the human resources and social security departments, and arranged through the general public budget to promote employment and entrepreneurship.
Article 3 The management of employment subsidy funds shall follow the following principles:
(1) Pay attention to Pratt & Whitney and give priority to it. We will implement the national inclusive employment and entrepreneurship support policy, focus on supporting the employment and entrepreneurship of groups with employment difficulties, and moderately allocate the central government’s employment subsidy funds to the central and western regions and regions with heavy employment tasks, so as to promote fair employment for all types of workers and promote the coordinated development of employment among regions.
(two) the combination of awards and compensation, incentive compatibility. Optimize the mechanism design, combine rewards with compensation, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of policy enforcement departments and policy targets at all levels.
(three) scientific and reasonable, improve quality and efficiency. Improve the operability and accuracy of the policy, optimize the direction of capital expenditure, strengthen supervision and control, strengthen the management of employment subsidy funds with performance orientation and result orientation, and dynamically adjust the policy in combination with the changes in employment situation and work tasks.
Chapter II Scope of Capital Expenditure
Article 4 Employment subsidy funds are divided into two categories: subsidies for individuals and units and subsidies for capacity building of public employment services.
Subsidies for individuals and units are used for vocational training subsidies, vocational skills evaluation subsidies, employment trainee subsidies, one-time job-seeking subsidies, one-time entrepreneurship subsidies, social insurance subsidies, public welfare post subsidies and other expenses; Public employment service capacity building subsidy funds are used for employment and entrepreneurship service subsidies and high-skilled personnel training subsidies and other expenses.
If the employment subsidy fund subsidy and unemployment insurance subsidy of the same project are duplicated, individuals and units cannot enjoy them repeatedly.
Article 5 The scope of personnel who enjoy vocational training subsidies includes: the monitoring targets for preventing poverty return, college graduates in graduation year (including senior workers’ classes in technical colleges, preparatory technicians’ classes, technicians’ classes and vocational education graduates in special education colleges, the same below), fresh junior high school graduates who have not continued their studies in urban and rural areas, rural migrant workers, registered unemployed people in cities and towns, people with employment difficulties, etc. (hereinafter collectively referred to as six categories of personnel), and qualified enterprise employees.
Vocational training subsidies are used in the following aspects:
(a) six categories of personnel employment skills training and entrepreneurship training. For six categories of personnel who have participated in employment skills training and entrepreneurship training, if they have obtained the required certificates after training (including vocational qualification certificates, vocational skill grade certificates, special vocational ability certificates and training qualification certificates, the same below), they will be given certain standards of vocational training subsidies. All localities should accurately meet the needs of industrial development and training targets, regularly publish the guidance catalogue of urgently needed occupations (jobs), and appropriately raise the subsidy standard for vocational training in the guidance catalogue. Training institutions that advance the training fees for the labor reserve system for fresh junior and senior high school graduates who have not continued their studies in urban and rural areas shall be given certain standards of vocational training subsidies. Among them, rural students and urban low-income family students who participate in the labor preparation training can be given a certain standard of cost of living allowance.
(2) Job skills training for qualified enterprise employees. For the six categories of personnel newly hired by the enterprise, they shall sign labor contracts with the enterprise for a period of more than one year, and participate in job skills training by the enterprise relying on the training institutions they belong to or the training institutions recognized by the government within one year from the date of signing the labor contract. Those who obtain certificates after training shall be given certain standards of vocational training subsidies to employees or enterprises. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the state to participate in the enterprise new apprenticeship training, technician training of enterprise employees, after training to obtain certificates, give employees or enterprises a certain standard of vocational training subsidies.
(3) Project-based training for qualified personnel. Local human resources, social security and financial departments can purchase employment skills training or entrepreneurship training services from training institutions through the project system according to regulations, carry out vocational skills training for unemployed people in major national reforms according to regulations, and give certain standards of vocational training subsidies to training institutions that undertake project-based training tasks.
Vocational training subsidies shall be paid in advance and by credit, and each person may enjoy a maximum of 3 times. Conditional areas can explore the establishment of personal credit accounts for vocational training for trainees, encourage trainees to choose training institutions and courses independently, and pay training fees through credit accounts. ?
Article 6 Six categories of personnel who have passed the initial vocational skill evaluation and obtained the required certificates (including vocational qualification certificate, vocational skill grade certificate and special vocational ability certificate, excluding training certificate) shall be subsidized for vocational skill evaluation. The subsidy standard may be appropriately raised for professional jobs that are included in the catalogue of professional qualification evaluation and vocational skill level identification of key industries. Each person can enjoy a maximum of 3 times, and the same occupation (type of work) cannot be enjoyed repeatedly.
Article 7 The scope of persons who enjoy the employment internship subsidy is unemployed college graduates and registered unemployed youth aged 16-24 who have left school for two years. To absorb the employment internship units, to give a certain standard of employment internship subsidies, for the internship units to pay the basic living expenses of interns during the internship, to handle personal accident insurance for interns, and to guide and manage the interns. The trainee probation period retention rate reached more than 50% of the units, can be appropriately raised trainee subsidy standards.
Article 8 One-time job-seeking subsidies shall be given to college graduates from low-income families, zero-employment families, families subject to poverty prevention monitoring, and extremely poor people who are actively seeking jobs and starting businesses in the graduation school year, and college graduates who are disabled and have obtained national student loans.
Article 9 For those college graduates who have left school for two years, people with employment difficulties, and migrant workers who have returned to their hometowns, who have established small and micro enterprises or engaged in self-employment for the first time, and the established enterprises or individual industrial and commercial households have been operating normally for more than one year since the date of industrial and commercial registration, they can be given a one-time business start-up subsidy.
Article 10 The scope of persons enjoying social insurance subsidies includes: persons with employment difficulties and college graduates who meet the provisions of the Employment Promotion Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Social insurance subsidies are used in the following aspects:
(a) social insurance subsidies for people with employment difficulties. Units that employ people with employment difficulties and pay social insurance premiums, and units that place people with employment difficulties through public welfare posts and pay social insurance premiums, shall be subsidized according to the basic old-age insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums and unemployment insurance premiums actually paid for people with employment difficulties, excluding the part that individuals with employment difficulties should pay. A certain amount of social insurance subsidies shall be given to the social insurance premiums paid by people with employment difficulties after flexible employment, and the subsidy standard shall not exceed 2/3 of their actual contributions in principle. The term of social insurance subsidies for people with employment difficulties can be extended to retirement except for those with employment difficulties who are less than 5 years away from the statutory retirement age, and the rest of the staff can not exceed 3 years at the longest (subject to the age when they first approved to enjoy social insurance subsidies).
(2) Social insurance subsidies for college graduates. Small and micro enterprises that employ unemployed college graduates in the graduation year and within two years after leaving school, sign labor contracts with them for more than one year and pay social insurance premiums for them, are given social insurance subsidies for up to one year, excluding the part that college graduates should pay individually. A certain amount of social insurance subsidies shall be given to the social insurance premiums paid by college graduates who have not been employed within 2 years after leaving school. The subsidy standard shall not exceed 2/3 of their actual contributions in principle, and the maximum subsidy period shall not exceed 2 years.
Article 11 The range of people who enjoy public welfare post subsidies is those with employment difficulties, with emphasis on the elderly unemployed and zero-employment family members.
Post subsidies shall be given to the people with employment difficulties who are placed in public welfare posts, and the subsidy standards shall be implemented with reference to the local minimum wage standards.
The term of public welfare post subsidy can be extended to retirement except for those with employment difficulties who are less than 5 years away from the statutory retirement age, and the rest of the staff can not exceed 3 years at the longest (subject to the age when they first approved to enjoy public welfare post subsidy).
Older people with employment difficulties, people with employment difficulties in zero-employment families, severely disabled people, etc., who are still difficult to achieve employment through other channels after the expiration of public welfare post subsidies, can be resettled through public welfare posts again according to procedures, and the term of post subsidies and social insurance subsidies is recalculated, and submitted to the provincial human resources and social security and financial departments for the record. The cumulative number of resettlement is no more than 2 times.
Twelfth employment and entrepreneurship service subsidies are used to strengthen the service capacity building of public employment and entrepreneurship service institutions.
The human resources and social security and financial departments at or above the county level can support public employment service institutions to strengthen the construction and maintenance of employment information network system through employment and entrepreneurship service subsidy funds. For the free public employment service undertaken by grass-roots public employment service institutions (including employment service stations at home and odd jobs stations set up by the government) and the business incubation service carried out by business incubation bases, certain subsidies can be given according to workload, professionalism and effectiveness. The public employment and entrepreneurship service institutions and their recruitment activities and entrepreneurship services with universities can be given certain subsidies according to the number of service personnel, effectiveness and cost.
The human resources and social security and financial departments at or above the county level may purchase basic employment and entrepreneurship services from the society according to the relevant provisions of the government on purchasing services. The specific scope and measures shall be determined by the provincial human resources and social security and financial departments.
Thirteenth high-skilled personnel training subsidies are mainly used for the construction of high-skilled personnel training bases and the construction of skill master studios.
All localities can combine the needs of regional economic development, industrial revitalization and development planning and the development of emerging strategic industries, build high-skilled personnel training bases relying on enterprises, universities, vocational training institutions and other units with high-skilled personnel training capabilities, and focus on activities such as high-skilled personnel training and upgrading, high-skilled personnel evaluation, high-skilled personnel curriculum research and development, and high-skilled personnel achievement exchange.
All localities can give full play to the important role of high-skilled leading talents in skills transmission, skills research, skills inheritance and skills promotion, select outstanding high-skilled talents in the front line of production and service of industrial enterprises, build skills master studios based on their units, and carry out skills inheritance and upgrading activities such as training, research, research and communication.
The specific scope of the use of subsidy funds for the training of high-skilled talents shall be determined by the provincial human resources and social security and financial departments in light of the actual situation and according to the existing regulations.
Article 14 Other expenditures refer to the newly-added employment and entrepreneurship support policy expenditures approved by the State Council and approved by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security according to the changes in the employment situation, as well as the employment and entrepreneurship support policy expenditures approved by the provincial people’s government on the basis of ensuring the implementation of various employment subsidy policies determined by the state, which are in line with the national employment policy orientation, directly related to promoting the employment and entrepreneurship of key groups and cannot be covered by the existing subsidy policies.
Other expenditures shall comply with the relevant regulations on the management of transfer payments.
Fifteenth employment subsidy funds for individuals and units of the specific standards, in line with the above principles, based on the provincial human resources and social security, financial sector combined with local conditions to determine. All localities should reasonably determine and scientifically control the proportion of public welfare post subsidies, and strictly control the proportion of employment and entrepreneurship service subsidies and other expenditures.
Sixteenth employment subsidy funds shall not be used for the following expenses:
(a) office buildings, dormitory construction and maintenance, transportation purchase and operation and maintenance expenses.
(two) the payment of staff salaries, allowances and other expenses.
(3) "three public" expenditures.
(four) inclusive finance business guarantee loans (original small secured loans) discount and supplementary business guarantee loan fund related expenses. ?
(five) office equipment and consumables, newspapers and books subscription, visit condolences and other expenses.
(6) Expenditure on organizing and implementing the games, bonuses, etc.
(seven) according to the provisions should be arranged by other financial funds.
(eight) other expenses prohibited by laws and regulations.
Subsidies in these Measures shall not be granted to the staff of government agencies and institutions.
Individuals and units in accordance with these measures to apply for subsidies, the specific use can be determined by the applicant or the applicant, not subject to the provisions of this article.
Chapter III Allocation and Release of Funds
Article 17 The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security shall allocate the central financial employment subsidy funds by combining the factor method with the project method.
The funds allocated by the factor method are divided between the eastern region and the central and western regions according to the level of regional economic and social development and the actual financial situation, and then allocated according to the factor method. The specific division ratio between the eastern region and the central and western regions is determined according to the overall employment situation and employment tasks. The eastern region includes Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong and Guangdong provinces (cities).
Appropriate support will be given to the advanced areas selected by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance for promoting employment when allocating the central financial employment subsidy funds.
The funds allocated by the project law shall be determined by competitive evaluation.
Article 18 The factors allocated by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security by factor method include basic factors, input factors, work achievement factors and key work factors, which are adjusted by performance adjustment coefficient and financial adjustment coefficient. Among them:
(a) the weight of the basic factors is 35%, and indicators such as the labor force population are set, with emphasis on the amount of employment tasks.
(two) the weight of the input factor is 15%, and the indicators such as the arrangement and use of local government employment subsidy funds are set, focusing on local investment and budget implementation, guiding local governments to increase investment and speed up budget implementation.
(3) The weight of work achievement factors is 15%, and indicators such as new employment in cities and towns are set, with emphasis on the completion of employment achievements.
(four) the weight of key work factors is 35%, and specific indicators are set according to the key tasks of employment work in the current year.
The factors, weights, methods and the upper and lower limits of the annual allocation of funds can be appropriately adjusted according to the overall employment situation and the focus of work tasks.
Performance adjustment coefficient and financial adjustment coefficient are determined by performance evaluation results and financial difficulty coefficient respectively.
Local finance, human resources and social security departments can determine the specific distribution method in combination with the actual situation.
Article 19 When allocating the central financial employment subsidy funds by factor method, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security shall be responsible for providing the basic employment-related data, performance evaluation results and suggestions on fund allocation needed for fund calculation together with relevant departments. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for collecting and summarizing business-related data such as fund carry-over balance, budget implementation and financial difficulty coefficient. Local human resources, social security and financial departments at all levels should clearly define the division of labor, compact the responsibilities and strengthen the examination and control when submitting basic data related to the allocation of funds to higher-level units. Each unit shall be responsible for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the data provided in accordance with the principle of "whoever provides it is responsible".
Article 20 Local governments may implement project management for the subsidy funds for the training of high-skilled talents in the public employment service capacity-building grant funds, and local human resources and social security departments shall prepare medium-and long-term plans for the training of high-skilled talents and determine the key areas of high-skilled talents supported by local governments.
Every year, the provincial human resources and social security departments shall, jointly with the financial department, organize experts to review the national-level high-skilled personnel training projects declared by the local authorities, and the review results shall be reported to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance for the record. The provincial financial department shall, jointly with the human resources and social security department, give classified subsidies according to the record results.
Article 21 The Ministry of Finance, together with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, will issue the estimated amount of the central financial employment subsidy funds for the next year to the provincial financial, human resources and social security departments before October 31 each year, and send a copy to the local supervision bureaus of the Ministry of Finance; Every year, within 30 days after the National People’s Congress examines and approves the central budget, the central financial employment subsidy fund budget is officially issued. The provincial finance, human resources and social security departments should formally reach the municipal and county finance departments and human resources and social security departments within 30 days after receiving the budget of the central finance employment subsidy funds, and send a copy of the allocation of funds to the local supervision bureau of the Ministry of Finance.
Local finance, human resources and social security departments at all levels should check the transfer payment budget of the central government before issuing it. If problems are found, they should immediately report to the superior financial, human resources and social security departments. Local authorities are not allowed to allocate and dispose of transfer payment funds in doubt without authorization.
Local finance, human resources and social security departments at all levels should put forward clear requirements for the fund management of the employment subsidy funds they use, and organize the implementation of various employment and entrepreneurship policies in a timely manner.
Article 22 The human resources, social security and financial departments at all levels should fully implement budget performance management for employment subsidy funds, and do a good job in setting, reviewing and issuing performance targets in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Finance on the management of budget performance targets for transfer payments; Establish the whole process budget performance management chain, strengthen the performance target management, and do a good job in performance operation monitoring and performance evaluation; Strengthen the application of performance results, increase the disclosure of performance information, and improve the efficiency of fund allocation and use efficiency.
Chapter IV Fund Management and Supervision
Twenty-third local human resources and social security departments at all levels should, on the basis of persisting in transforming government functions and improving administrative efficiency, sort out and make public the list of employment subsidy policies in the region, and clarify the application materials, application procedures, handling channels and processing time limit.
Local departments of human resources, social security and finance at all levels should accept applications from various units and individuals in a timely manner, complete material review and fund allocation as soon as possible, and make regular reconciliation. Do a good job in the basic management of employment subsidy funds, strengthen supervision after the event, effectively identify the authenticity of personnel and units enjoying subsidy policies, and prevent fraudulent behaviors, and strengthen verification and spot checks on subsidies with large amount, large number of people and long term to prevent fraudulent behaviors.
Local human resources, social security and financial departments at all levels should strengthen information construction according to regulations, and rely on the centralized employment information platform in the province to bring subsidy application, acceptance, review and disbursement into system management. For information and materials that can be obtained by relying on information systems or by information sharing and business collaboration with relevant units, paper materials are no longer required, and personal subsidies can be issued through social security cards if conditions permit.
Twenty-fourth central financial employment subsidy funds in accordance with the provisions of the grassroots cities and counties, in strict accordance with the relevant provisions of the treasury centralized payment management system. In the process of using funds, involving government procurement, it should be implemented in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and systems of government procurement.
Finance, human resources and social security departments at all levels should speed up the implementation of the budget, timely allocate funds in place, revitalize the existing funds, improve the efficiency of the use of funds, and carry forward the management of surplus funds in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Ministry of Finance.
Article 25 Local finance, human resources and social security departments at all levels should establish and improve financial management rules and regulations, strengthen internal financial management, strictly follow the financial management regulations, implement the requirements of separate authority and incompatible authority for post setting, optimize business processes and strengthen internal risk prevention and control.
Article 26 The financial, human resources and social security departments at all levels should include the management and use of employment subsidy funds in the scope of key supervision and inspection, take the initiative to carry out self-inspection, mutual inspection, cross-inspection or entrust a third-party inspection, and consciously accept the inspection and social supervision by auditing departments.
Twenty-seventh local financial, human resources and social security departments at all levels should do a good job in the annual budget and final accounts in accordance with the overall requirements of financial budget and final accounts management, and make it public as required.
Twenty-eighth levels of human resources and social security, financial departments should do a good job of information disclosure, through the local media, departmental websites and other public annual employment objectives, the completion of tasks, the use of various subsidy funds.
The disclosure of the use of various subsidy funds includes: the name of the unit or the list of personnel who enjoy various subsidies (including the ID number with hidden digits), subsidy standards and specific amounts, etc. Among them, the public welfare post subsidy should also disclose the name of the public welfare post, the establishment unit, the list of resettlement personnel, and the time to enjoy the subsidy; One-time job-seeking subsidies should be publicized on campus before they are issued.
Human resources, social security and financial departments at all levels should strictly abide by the laws and regulations of the state on the protection of personal information, which not only ensures the openness and transparency of the use of funds, but also avoids the disclosure of sensitive personal information.
Twenty-ninth financial, human resources and social security departments at all levels should establish an accountability mechanism of "who uses and who is responsible" for employment subsidy funds.
Finance, human resources and social security departments at all levels and their staff in the employment subsidy funds allocation audit, use management and other work, there are violations of the provisions of these measures, as well as other violations of laws and regulations, such as abuse of power, dereliction of duty, shall be investigated for corresponding responsibilities. Anyone suspected of committing a crime shall be transferred to the relevant authorities for handling according to law.
For places that neglect management and use funds in violation of regulations, the central government will correspondingly deduct its employment subsidy funds for the next year; If the circumstances are serious, it will be disqualified from obtaining the central financial employment subsidy fund in the next year and will be notified nationwide.
Chapter V Supplementary Provisions
Thirtieth these Measures shall be interpreted by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Provincial finance, human resources and social security departments should formulate specific implementation measures for the management and use of employment subsidy funds in accordance with these measures according to local actual conditions.
Thirty-first central government employment subsidy funds related expenses shall be implemented until 2025. Before the expiration, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with the Ministry of Finance, will organize performance evaluation according to relevant laws, administrative regulations, relevant provisions of the State Council and work needs, and determine whether to extend the subsidy policy and the extension period according to the evaluation results.
Article 32 These Measures shall come into force as of the date of promulgation. Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Printing and Distributing the Measures for the Administration of Employment Subsidies (Caishe [2017] No.164), Supplementary Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on the Measures for the Administration of Employment Subsidies (Caishe [2019] No.122), Supplementary Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on the Measures for the Administration of Employment Subsidies (Caishe)
