- Check whether your employer (contracting party) has registered you for social insurance. If they have not, and you fall ill or suffer an accident at work, you may have trouble receiving benefits from ZUS
- Ensure that your closest family members – your spouse and children – are registered for health insurance if they have no other basis for insurance coverage. If they independently acquire the right to insurance, remember to deregister them
- Check whether your employer pays contributions on your correct contribution basis and is not underreporting it. Contributions based on a lower salary than you actually receive mean lower benefits today (sickness or maternity allowance) and in the future (a pension or disability pension)
- Without leaving home, you can view the data recorded in your individual account with ZUS. Check it yourself on the Electronic Services Platform – www.pue.zus.pl
- If you work abroad, check which country you should be insured in
- Check whether your employer has registered you for health insurance. If they have not, you will not be able to use public healthcare or receive prescriptions for reimbursed medicines
- If your identification, address or registration details have changed, inform your employer. If your employer no longer exists, you can report the change through the Electronic Services Platform
- When you receive information about the status of your insured person’s account with ZUS, verify the data it contains – for the sake of your future pension
- With access to your insured person’s account on the www.pue.zus.pl portal, based on the data collected there and your own projections of future income, you can calculate the amount of your hypothetical pension
- Remember – if you do not meet the conditions for compulsory coverage by old-age and disability insurance, you have the right (under certain conditions) to voluntary coverage by these types of insurance. This may give you higher benefits in the future.
Emilia Nowakowska, ZUS press spokesperson in Legnica