Sickness insurance (Nemocenské pojištění)

What

The purpose of sickness insurance benefits is to financially secure economically active citizens when they lose short-term earnings due to illness or maternity.
Participation in employee sickness insurance is legally enforceable and mandatory. Self-employed persons can pay sickness insurance voluntarily. It’s 2,3 %.

Where

The Sickness insurance must be paid at The Czech Social Security Administration (Česká správa sociálního zabezpečení) (in Czech): http://www.cssz.cz/cz/nemocenske-pojisteni/

Praha 5-Smíchov, Czech Republic