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Social securityStudents and PhD students
Students and PhD students (other than grant-assisted PhD students and employees) do not pay Belgian social security contributions. The only action to be taken relates to reimbursement of healthcare costs.
Grant holders and employees (PhD students, researchers and lecturers)
Employees with an employment contract and grant holders are subject to social security contributions, which are deducted at source and payable to the Belgian National Social Security Office (ONSS). This will either provide full or partial (not including unemployment and pension) social security cover, depending on the nationality (*) of the individual in question.
The schemes covered by the social security system include:
• Compulsory health and incapacity insurance, healthcare sector;
• compulsory health and incapacity insurance, benefits sector;
• family allowance;
• retirement and survivor’s pensions;
• unemployment insurance;
• annual holidays (for manual workers);
• occupational accident insurance;
• insurance for occupational diseases.
(*) Full social security cover applies to EU nationals + nationals of Algeria, Australia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Morocco, Norway, the Philippines, San Marino, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United States and the new independent states of the former Yugoslavia. 
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4/01/2013
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