{"id":355896,"date":"2026-02-12T14:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=355896"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:49:51","slug":"india-and-uk-sign-social-security-agreement-for-temporary-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-uk-sign-social-security-agreement-for-temporary-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"India and UK Sign Social Security Agreement for Temporary Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> India signed an Agreement on Social Security relating to Social Security Contributions with the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the agreement<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/misri.jpg?resize=305%2C203&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"India, UK sign Social Security Agreement for Temporary Employees\" width=\"305\" height=\"203\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: DD News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Signed between:<\/strong> India and UK<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> To facilitate greater mobility of professionals and workers between India and the United Kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement<strong> seeks to avoid double social security contributions by employees of both countries who are on temporary assignments in each other\u2019s territories\u00a0<\/strong>for a<strong> period of up to 36 months.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will<strong> support mobility and continued social security coverage of the employees<\/strong> on short term overseas assignments.<\/li>\n<li>This <strong>arrangement forms part of the broader India\u2013UK trade deal framework and <\/strong>will <strong>come into effect along with the implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The signed agreement will be<strong> hosted on the website of the Ministry of External Affairs and the website of the Employees\u2019 Provident Fund Organisation<\/strong> for the information of the stakeholders<strong> so that they can secure Certificates of Coverage (CoC) to avoid making double social security contributions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-uk-sign-social-security-agreement-for-temporary-employees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India and UK Sign Social Security Agreement for Temporary Employees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-355896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}