[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type="block" ihc_mb_who="2,3,4,5" ihc_mb_template="2" ] This answer can only be accessed by Premium account subscribers. To register for a Premium subscription, please check details here. [/ihc-hide-content][ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type="show" ihc_mb_who="2,3,4,5" ihc_mb_template="2" ] Yes, there are certain situations in which an individual can pay the contribution without being an employee. The first occurs in the case of those who obtain, independently (as freelancers), certain types of income. Let's say you get income from an independent activity or from the transfer of intellectual property rights. In this case, you are obliged to pay the pension contribution only if the level of income you earn during a year exceeds a certain threshold. Which, according to the Romanian Tax Code, represents the equivalent of 12 minimum gross national salaries, obtained during one year. More exactly, that is at least 27,600 lei for the year 2021. The second situation, a little atypical we could say, appears in all other cases. That is, if you do not fall into the above situations (of generating income from employment or freelancing activities), you can insure yourself voluntarily in the Romanian state pension system, as per the provisions of Law no. 263/2010. Specifically, Art. 6 (2) of this law establishes that: "any person may be insured in the public pension system on the basis of a social insurance contract, in order to obtain the old-age pension and, as the case may be, in order to supplement the insured income used to calculate this category of pension". The paragraph refers strictly to voluntary pension insurance, because the previous paragraph within the same article already establishes who are the persons obliged to insure in the Romanian pension system. [/ihc-hide-content]