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[timetotravel]

i have heard that because i did not receive pension and healthcare this year while working at a hagwon that next year when i am working for the public school system i will be required to pay alot more into these things....or something along those lines.
is there truth to this???

[poet13]

If the pension service and tax office and health insurance investigated/uadited your old employer and found that you had not paid in, then yes, they CAN demand that you back pay for all the time you've been here.

However, I would ask for some sort of official written notice from those services before allowing your employer to take more money from you. That could be a scam. If it is, it's one I haven't heard before.

[Atavistic]

Well I have no idea, but I went to pension last week and was told that my former employer (the one that got me evicted cause she didn't pay rent) didn't pay pension. I asked what I needed to do and they said nothing. I asked if I could file a report and they said no. I told her I paid money and asked if I was in trouble. She said no.

So. Let's review. Korea is so frickin' wonderful that a legal requirement--pension--is not paid. Pension is well aware of this (THEY told me, I didn't ask) and yet does jack nothing about it. Reports can't be filed against the school and pension does the good old Korean thing of DOING NOTHING.

I wish the IRS in America were like pension here. "Oh, we see good old Atavistic hasn't paid taxes in 20 years. Oh well!"

[CentralCali]

That's ridiculous. Go back to the local pension office and speak to someone with authority. The person at the counter obviously doesn't know what they're talking about.

[Atavistic]