Premium subsidies in the canton of Fribourg
The canton of Fribourg decides who receives a subsidy, how much, and how the application is filed. The Confederation sets two floors that apply everywhere.
Premium reduction in Fribourg, 2024
27.9 % of insured people in Fribourg receive a premium reduction.
Swiss average: 29.5 %. Fribourg therefore subsidises less widely than the national average.
96'384
Recipients
CHF 223 mio
Paid out in the year
CHF 2'313
Per recipient
This is the total divided by the number of recipients. It mixes partial reductions and full coverage: it does not say what you would receive, it says what the canton pays on average.
Since 1996
The share of insured people helped went from 22.2 % in 1996 to 27.9 % in 2024.
Premium reduction figures: FOPH health insurance dashboard, federal statistics. They describe the measured past, not your entitlement: that is claimed from your canton.
The competent authority
Caisse de compensation du canton de Fribourg
In the canton of Fribourg, this administration receives applications, calculates entitlement and pays the subsidy. No intermediary is needed, and none can speed up processing.
Open the official site →What federal law guarantees everywhere
Cantons run premium reduction: they decide who qualifies, for how much, and how payment is made. That freedom is why the same income opens an entitlement in one canton and not in its neighbour.
Two floors nevertheless apply across Switzerland. For low- and middle-income households, children’s premiums must be reduced by at least 80 %, and those of young adults in training by at least 50 %. These are minimums: several cantons go further.
In 2024 public authorities paid CHF 6.6 billion under this heading, of which CHF 3.3 billion — 50.6 % — came from the Confederation. This is not marginal support: after premiums themselves, it is the second largest source of health insurance funding.
How to proceed
- 1First check whether your canton pays automatically. Some cross-reference tax data and send the decision with no application; others only examine applications filed. Not knowing which is the leading cause of lost subsidies.
- 2Have your latest tax assessment ready: it is almost always the basis for calculating determining income.
- 3Meet the cantonal deadline. It varies by canton, and a late application is generally not made up retroactively.
- 4Report any change — marriage, separation, birth, job loss, moving to another canton. Entitlement is recalculated, and a move restarts the process from scratch in the new canton.
Why we show no amount. We deliberately publish no subsidy calculator. The scales are set by each canton, change every year, and are consolidated nowhere. Copying twenty-six scales by hand means getting at least one wrong — and an error here would tell someone they qualify for nothing when they do. The only reliable figure comes from the authority above.
The 26 cantons
- Aargau
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
- Basel-Landschaft
- Basel-Stadt
- Bern
- Fribourg
- Geneva
- Glarus
- Grisons
- Jura
- Lucerne
- Neuchâtel
- Nidwalden
- Obwalden
- Schaffhausen
- Schwyz
- Solothurn
- St. Gallen
- Thurgau
- Ticino
- Uri
- Valais
- Vaud
- Zug
- Zurich
Source: list of competent authorities published by the FOPH on priminfo.admin.ch. All twenty-six addresses were checked individually on 21 August 2026.