<p>The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) in South Korea is intensifying its efforts to collect overdue premiums. Many high-income individuals who can afford to pay premiums for social insurance, including health insurance, have been neglecting their dues.</p>
<h2 id="header-0">Virtual assets for seizure</h2>
<p><a href="https://biz.chosun.com/science-chosun/medicine-health/2023/10/18/5FAEH4TLPZGSRCU3NM2XQ5WY7Y/?utm_source=naver&amp;utm_medium=original&amp;utm_campaign=biz" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">According</a> to the documents submitted on October 18 by the NHIS to lawmaker Jung Choun-sook, a member of the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee, the NHIS is actively identifying a range of assets, including copyrights and virtual assets, that can be seized from these individuals. The NHIS aims to recover overdue premiums through stringent measures such as confiscation and government auctions. This move is designed to deter high-income earners from neglecting their obligations, ensuring fairness for those who consistently pay their premiums.</p>
<h2 id="header-1">Almost 60,000 crypto-holding households</h2>
<p>This year, the NHIS discovered that 59,513 households, despite owning virtual assets, had outstanding social insurance premiums amounting to KRW 525 billion ($389 million). The NHIS has initiated collection efforts. In 2021, the insurance agency identified 5,336 households with virtual assets that had unpaid social insurance premiums totaling KRW 62.2 billion. Of this, the NHIS successfully collected KRW 6.92 billion, representing 11.13% of the total arrears.</p>
<p>On this matter, lawmaker Jung highlighted that the government should strive to bolster the NHIS’s financial health. She underscored the importance of identifying concealed income sources or assets, like cryptocurrency holdings, of premium defaulters to ensure the collection of their overdue premiums.</p>

Almost 60K Korean Crypto-Holding Households Owe $389M in Unpaid Social Insurance Premiums

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