Provident funds can only be loaned by one spouse. 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. Housing provident fund mainly has the following attributes:

1, security, the establishment of employee housing provident fund system, providing a guarantee for employees to solve housing problems faster and better;

2. Mutual assistance, the establishment of housing provident fund system can effectively establish and form a mechanism and channel for workers with housing to help workers without housing. Housing provident fund provides financial assistance to workers without housing, which reflects the mutual assistance of housing provident fund to workers;

3. In the long run, every urban employee must pay personal housing provident fund from the date of joining the work to the date of retirement or termination of labor relations; The employee's unit should also pay the housing provident fund for employee subsidies as required.

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Regulations on the administration of housing provident fund

Twelfth housing provident fund management committee shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the People's Bank of China, designate a commercial bank entrusted with the financial business of housing provident fund (hereinafter referred to as the entrusted bank); The housing provident fund management center shall entrust the entrusted bank to handle financial services such as housing provident fund loans and settlement, as well as the establishment, deposit and return procedures of housing provident fund accounts.

The housing provident fund management center shall sign an entrustment contract with the entrusted bank. Twenty-sixth workers who have paid housing provident fund can apply for housing provident fund loans to the housing provident fund management center when purchasing, building, renovating or overhauling their own houses.

The housing provident fund management center shall make a decision on whether to grant loans within 15 days from the date of accepting the application, and notify the applicant; Where a loan is granted, the entrusted bank shall go through the loan formalities.

The risk of housing provident fund loans shall be borne by the housing provident fund management center. Twenty-seventh applicants for housing provident fund loans shall provide guarantees. Twenty-eighth housing provident fund management center in the premise of ensuring the housing provident fund withdrawal and loans, approved by the housing provident fund management committee, housing provident fund can be used to buy government bonds.

The housing provident fund management center shall not provide guarantees to others.