News: India signed an Agreement on Social Security relating to Social Security Contributions with the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland in New Delhi.
About the agreement
- Signed between: India and UK
- Aim: To facilitate greater mobility of professionals and workers between India and the United Kingdom.
- The agreement seeks to avoid double social security contributions by employees of both countries who are on temporary assignments in each other’s territories for a period of up to 36 months.
- It will support mobility and continued social security coverage of the employees on short term overseas assignments.
- This arrangement forms part of the broader India–UK trade deal framework and will come into effect along with the implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA).
- The signed agreement will be hosted on the website of the Ministry of External Affairs and the website of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation for the information of the stakeholders so that they can secure Certificates of Coverage (CoC) to avoid making double social security contributions.
