Legal analysis: the higher loan amount of the employee family whose husband and wife pay the housing provident fund is increased from 300,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan, and the higher loan amount of the employee family who unilaterally pays the housing provident fund remains unchanged at 300,000 yuan.

Legal basis: Regulations on the Management of Housing Provident Fund

Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the deposit, withdrawal, use, management and supervision of housing provident fund in People's Republic of China (PRC).

The term "housing accumulation fund" as mentioned in these Regulations refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units and social organizations (hereinafter referred to as units) and their employees.

Article 3 The housing accumulation fund paid by individual employees and the housing accumulation fund paid by the unit where employees work for employees belong to individual employees.