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From 1 January 2026, regulations will come into force permitting periods other than employment under a contract of employment to be added to a length of service.
The Senate has made amendments to the reform of medical certification in the Social Insurance Institution which are intended to streamline the process of certifying incapacity for work.
ZUS states that between January and September 2025 the Social Insurance Institution undertook 341,500 investigations of persons having certificates of temporary incapacity for work (of which 114,400 were in Q3).
A private members’ bill extending until 31 October of a given year the period of student status for persons who have obtained a bachelor’s degree or equivalent engineering qualification has been submitted for its first reading to the Sejm's Education and Science Committee.
The Sejm passed an amendment to the Social Insurance System Act that had been prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy. The amendment repeals article 36(8) which had had imposed an obligation on contribution payers to store for five years paper notifications to ZUS that were signed in person by persons being reported, even if the notifications were submitted electronically.
The Social Insurance Institution ("ZUS") in the latest interpretation (DI/200000/43/546/2025) ruled that contributions are to be calculated on the total payments made in a month, even if they relate to different periods.