Video.. All you need to know about the registration of business owners and self-employed people in the Abu Dhabi pension system

Acting Director of the Employers and Insured Services Sector, Suhaila Al Rumaithi, confirmed that the decision to include self-employed within Law No. 2 of 2000 regarding civil retirement pensions and benefits in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is concerned with citizens who practice for their own account commercial, industrial or agricultural activities, who have a record Commercially or any other official registry in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, it also includes citizens, employers and self-employed.

Today, the Abu Dhabi Pension Fund began implementing a decision to include self-employed citizens from employers, liberal professions and commercial activities, in the retirement law in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, while allowing them to be registered as insured with the Fund voluntarily, provided that they are treated as insured in the private sector.

Al-Rumaithi said, in a special video for "Emirates Today": "The registration of these categories in the fund is optional, as it is subject to the citizen's desire to register to take advantage of the insurance benefits and advantages that the fund provides to its registrants," explaining that 20 income brackets have been identified that employers can Choose the appropriate ones as a system

For self-employed workers, it starts from 12,750 dirhams and a maximum of 200,000 dirhams, provided that the monthly contributions are calculated at 26% of the monthly income bracket, of which the insured will bear only 20%, while the government bears 6% of the value of pension contributions in support of it to employers and professions Free for their contribution to support the economic growth of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and to ensure the principle of justice and equality and equal opportunities for all insured citizens, as it is the same percentage of support for government and private sector employees.

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