“Pensions” applies additional fines to the delay in paying the Gulf subscriptions

The General Authority for Pensions and Social Insurance called on employers to adhere to paying subscriptions for the Gulf citizens working in the country, which are covered by the unified system for providing insurance protection, which is the system that guarantees civilian citizens from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries working in any other country of the Council of the Council to obtain the same insurance coverage available to citizens in their countries.

The authority explained that from the beginning of July 2025, additional fines will be applied to employers who are late in paying the contributions due for their Gulf workers in the state, and these fines will be applied according to the dates set by the federal pension laws in the state, and these fines are the rights of retirement devices in the employee’s country.

Subscriptions are due from the beginning of the month for the month due, and can be paid until the 15th of the month. For example, the July 2025 subscriptions allowed to be paid to the commission from 1 to 15 August 2025. In the event of delay, a fine is imposed by 0.1% for each delay day, starting from the sixteenth day, without the need for warning or alert.

This decision comes to activate the provisions of Article (12) of the Law of the Protection System, and according to the outputs of the meeting (23) of the Committee of the Heads of Civil Retirement and Social Insurance Services in the Cooperation Council countries, which obliges the retirement system in the state of work to follow up the late employers when paying subscriptions and taking legal measures to collect them alongside the additional amounts of delay, on behalf of the retirement apparatus in the employee country.

The protection extension system is mandatory, as employers are registered with the Gulf citizens working in the government and private sectors, and subscriptions are paid according to the insurance system in the employee’s country, so that their contributions do not exceed the employer’s share in the state’s headquarters, provided that the Gulf citizen bears any differences in the contributions, if any.

It is noteworthy that the work of the system began according to Cabinet Resolution 18 of 2007 to regulate the provisions for the extension of insurance protection for the citizens of the Cooperation Council states working outside their country in any of the GCC states, and the General Authority for Pension and Social Insurance in the state is supervised by its implementation.