Insurance

Health Insurance and Social Security

Health insurance is mandatory in the CR, is provided by private health insurance companies and you need to choose the company yourself. More on cizinci.cz and euraxess.cz (contains list of health insurance companies).

Social security is voluntary to certain extend: in some cases, you do not need to pay it, but if you pay it, you contribute to state sickness insurance, pensions insurance or unemployment policy, which then allows you to draw the money back when you need it (in forms of various allowances or benefits). More on mpsv.cz and euraxess.cz.

In case you are employed, both the insurances are automatically deducted from your wage by the employer and the employer financially contributes to it. More on the rates and wage calculation in section Salary.

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