Chinanews.com client, August 3, can flexible employees postpone the payment of basic pension insurance? Will it cause the payment period to be interrupted? The State Administration of Taxation said on the 3rd that individual industrial and commercial households and various flexible employees who participate in the basic endowment insurance for enterprise employees in their personal capacity have difficulties in paying basic endowment insurance premiums in 2020, and they can voluntarily postpone their payment. Payments can be continued in 2021, and the payment period will be calculated cumulatively; for the monthly unpaid fees in 2020, the repayment can be made before the end of 2021, and the payment base can be independently selected within the upper and lower limits of the local personal payment base in 2021. Flexible employees who apply for the deferment of payment of this year’s basic pension insurance premiums will not cause the payment period to be interrupted. Payments can be continued in 2021, and the payment period will be calculated cumulatively.