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Health insurance: employer’s deadline to report a new subscriber

14 daysdays from the date coverage begins

A short, checkable date that decides whether an employee is actually covered when they first need to be. It gives a new arrival something concrete to ask about in week one — and a missing report is the ordinary explanation for a health insurance card that never arrives, rather than anything to do with nationality.

Applies to
Employers, on every workplace subscriber including foreign employees
Review cadence
Checked once a year

What we have recorded

  1. 2026-09-21
    14 days

    The employer must file the acquisition of workplace subscriber status within 14 days of the day it begins. Workplace health insurance turns on the employment relationship meeting the statutory conditions, not on nationality reciprocity — which is why a foreign employee can correctly have health insurance and no national pension line.

    National Health Insurance Act

One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.

Guides that depend on this figure

When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.