Paying social insurance contributions

Your employer must deduct social insurance contributions from your wages or salary. These contributions are then paid to the social security institution  or the tax authorities in the country where you are insured.

You can only get a benefit or build up pension rights if your employer pays the relevant social insurance contributions in the right country.

In which country do you have to pay social insurance contributions?

  1. If you are insured in the Netherlands

    If the social security institution in the country where you work asks you to pay social insurance contributions, you can use your A1 certificate (certificate of coverage) to prove that you are paying contributions in the Netherlands. This means that you do not have to pay social insurance contributions in the country where you work.

  2. If you are insured outside the Netherlands

    If you are insured in a country other than the Netherlands but your employer is not paying social insurance contributions for you in that country, please contact us. We will try to make sure that social insurance contributions are paid on your wages or salary in the right country, including for previous years.

More information