Four Major Social Insurance Enrollment Filings to Be Processed Directly Through Accounting Software Starting Oct. 12

The hassle of printing out documents and sending them by fax when workplaces or tax and accounting firms report enrollment in the four major social insurance programs is set to disappear. The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service is introducing an electronic filing service that automatically receives reports submitted through tax and accounting software.

Park Seungheup, Chairman of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service will introduce a QR-code electronic filing service for the "Insurance Relationship Establishment Report" on October 12. The report is a standard form that workplaces submit when enrolling in the four major social insurance programs.

Online filing through the Employment and Industrial Accident Insurance Total Service was already available, but direct submission of reports prepared using tax and accounting software was not supported. Workplaces and tax and accounting firms had to print out reports and send them by fax, after which service employees had to process them manually. The relevant information was then passed on to the National Health Insurance Service and the National Pension Service through the Four Major Social Insurance Information Linkage Center.

Under the new system, when a report is prepared and submitted through tax and accounting software, the service's system will read the information encoded in a QR code and automatically process the filing. The process for forwarding filing information to relevant agencies will also be linked, saving users the effort of printing documents and sending them by fax.

The service is expected to make about 70,000 filings a year more convenient to process. The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service will launch the service first on October 12, with relevant agencies, including the National Health Insurance Service, set to introduce it in stages.

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service jointly developed the service with the National Health Insurance Service, the National Pension Service, and the Four Major Social Insurance Information Linkage Center, beginning in March 2025. In 2019, the service established an automated system for receiving civil petition documents using QR codes. In 2022, it introduced QR-code electronic filing for 10 types of civil petition documents, including the report of total remuneration. The service has now been expanded to cover the Insurance Relationship Establishment Report.

Park Seungheup, president of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, said, "We have improved the process together with relevant agencies so workplaces can file reports more conveniently. We will continue to reduce the difficulties people face during the filing process and bring about changes that the public can experience."

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