Get Form 15a: Declaration Regarding Employment Status

Note that while your employer is required to match the taxes you pay for both Social Security and Medicare, your pay stub may or may not show the employer match. It is easy to see what you have contributed toward Social Security and Medicare simply by looking at your pay stub.

Social security contributions It is funded by employer and employee contributions of 0.9% of the basic salary, with a maximum contribution of NAD 81 per month each (i.e. the total monthly contribution of both the employer and the employee will amount to NAD 162).

Total social security contributions rates applicable in the Republic of Srpska amount to 32.80% applicable to gross salary. All 32.80% is withheld from the employee's salary.

Social Security is financed through a dedicated payroll tax. Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up to the taxable maximum of $160,200 (in 2023), while the self-employed pay 12.4 percent.

Old-age pension (Old-age Grant, universal): Age 60. Old-age benefit (social insurance): Age 60 with at least six months of contributions. Employment must cease.

Provides for the establishment, constitution, powers, duties and functions of the Social Security Commission, and for the payment of maternity leave benefits, sick leave benefits and death benefits to employees. Establishes for the latter purpose the Maternity Leave, Sick Leave and Death Benefit Fund.

“(1) Maternity leave benefits shall be equal to 100 per cent of the basic wage of the female employee concerned, up to a maximum amount of N$15,000.00 per month, payable for a maximum of 12 weeks.”.