social insurance

From January 1, 2027, the registration of the rights and obligations of citizens on social insurance in the state social insurance system will be carried out on the basis of the state identification number of an individual or other identifiers of registration in the State Register of Population, reports Logos Press.

Demographic pressure on the state social insurance budget will only increase. Parliament passed the first reading of the draft law on the social insurance budget for 2026: two-thirds of the expenditures are earmarked for pensions, Logos Press reported.

The execution of the state social insurance budget for the first 8 months of 2025 ended with an excess of revenues over expenditures of over 1.3 billion lei, thanks to transfers to cover the deficit of own revenues, Logos Press reported.

Over the last ten years, the proportion of the working age population has decreased by 9 percentage points, while the proportion of those over working age has conversely increased by 7.5 percentage points. This is evidenced by the final results of the 2024 Population and Housing Census on demographic characteristics. They were presented on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Execution of surplus budgets for Social Security and Medicare in 2024 could have been even better if not for shadow payments by businesses,” Logos Press reports.

During three months of the current year, the mandatory state social insurance contributions were accumulated in the amount of 6408.4 million lei. This is 23.0% of the annual plan, but by 748.4 million lei or 13.2% more than in the same period last year,” Logos Press reported.