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03-01-2025

CHI payments have increased since January

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Self-employed workers and residents who pay their own compulsory health insurance (CHI) payments on the minimum monthly salary should take note of the changes in January. With the increase in the minimum monthly wage, CHI contributions have increased since the beginning of the year.

To access healthcare, self-employed people and those with business licences have to pay their own monthly CHI payments. People who do not work or study and are not registered with the Employment Service are also required to pay their own CHI payments. Individual enterprises pay CHI payments for their owners, partnerships for full members, small partnerships for members of small partnerships and for non-member directors who receive remuneration.

CHI payment rates from 2025

The minimum monthly contribution to the CHI is 6.98% of the minimum monthly wage (MMW). As the MMW has increased to EUR 1 038 this year, the CHI payment has also increased. It is now EUR 72.45, up from EUR 64.50 in 2024.

Farmers and their partners with an economic size of less than or equal to 2 will pay EUR 24.19 per month for compulsory health insurance.  Those with a farm size greater than 2 will pay EUR 72.45.

CHI contributions are compulsory in Lithuania. For those who are insured, the state guarantees health care, while people who are not covered by compulsory health insurance have to pay for medical services themselves.

Not paying the payment by the end of the current month means that your health insurance will stop - you will have to pay for health care services and accumulate a debt that will still have to be paid.

Residents who have set up automatic payments in their internet bank should be more careful - the amounts need to be changed. Those who have paid CHI payments at the previous rates will not be covered by compulsory health insurance.

Most self-employed and self-funded people pay their CHI payments under one code - 444.

Who does not need to pay CHI payments independently

For the part of the population that, for objective reasons, is unable to work, the state pays the CHI payments. Persons under 18, schoolchildren and full-time students are covered by the state. The State also pays CHI payments for women on maternity leave, pensioners and recipients of social assistance compensation, and the unemployed registered with the Employment Service.

You also do not have to pay CHI payments if you are covered by the state as an individual:

  • caring for a disabled person;
  • with 1 child under 8 or 2 or more minor children;
  • having completed the minimum period of service required for an old-age pension or having completed 30 years of service by 31 December 2017, etc.

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Last updated: 22-01-2025

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