Church fund for liquidation. The minister wants the division of 50 to 50

Only on Monday, March 24, the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy announced the liquidation of the Church Fund to present new rules for paying social security contributions on Wednesday, March 26 at a press conference.

Church fund for liquidation. “It cannot be ZUS with a clergy”

Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk reminded that she had already submitted an application for an entry in the list of legislative work of the government regarding the bill liquidating the church fund. She explained that he had to disappear and I could not be “ZUS of the clergy”. She reminded that the church fund is currently paid from citizens’ taxes. She noted that no group of employees enjoy such privileges.

Instead, the left suggests that the clergy and their religious associations finance the social insurance premium in half. In her opinion, this would be an analogous situation to the one between a typical employer and employee. – We would like this division to be 50 out of 50, or 50 percent. contributions are paid by a clergy person, 50 percent The church where a person performs his function or simply works – she explained.

Dziemianowicz-Bąk: The church fund is a symbol

Dziemianowicz-Bąk pointed out that, of course, exceptions are provided for this rule. Clergy in orders or missions that do not have their own income would be excluded from paying contributions. In their case, the church or religious association would pay 100 percent. contributions. Currently 95 percent The expenditure of the church fund is social security contributions.

– The church fund is a symbol of the lack of chapter of the church from the state. A chapter that may be friendly, a partner, which may and should take into account the right to freedom of religion, lack of this religion and to living together in one country: secular, free from the excessive influence of the Church on our lives-said Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk.