Extended data:
Housing accumulation fund refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs and institutions, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and institutions, private non-enterprise units, social organizations and their employees.
The definition of housing provident fund includes the following five aspects:
Housing provident fund is only established in cities and towns, and the housing provident fund system is not established in rural areas.
Only on-the-job employees can establish a housing provident fund system. Unemployed urban residents and retired workers do not implement the housing provident fund system.
The housing accumulation fund consists of two parts, one part is paid by the unit where the employee works, and the other part is paid by the individual employee. After the employee's individual deposit is withheld by the unit, it will be deposited into the individual account of the housing provident fund together with the unit deposit.
The long-term nature of housing provident fund deposit. Once the housing provident fund system is established, employees must be paid continuously in accordance with the regulations during their employment, and shall not be suspended or interrupted except for employees' retirement or other circumstances stipulated in the Regulations on the Administration of Housing Provident Fund. It embodies the stability, unity, standardization and compulsion of housing provident fund.
Housing provident fund is a personal housing savings fund specially used by employees for housing consumption expenditure, which has two characteristics:
First, it is cumulative, that is, the housing provident fund is not an integral part of employees' wages, and it is not paid in cash. It must be deposited in a special account opened by the housing provident fund management center in the entrusted bank, and special account management is implemented.
The second is special. The housing provident fund is earmarked for special purposes and can only be used for the purchase, construction, overhaul of self-occupied housing or the payment of rent during storage. Only when employees leave, retire, die, completely lose their ability to work, terminate their labor relations with their units or move out of their original cities can they withdraw housing provident fund from their accounts.