Regions and Countries
Regions and Countries
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Social security coverage includes old-age pensions and disability pensions, survivors’ and maternity benefits and compensation for work injuries. One of the components of the Social Protection Network of the Dominican Government, Programa Solidaridad.
Jamaica offers a contributory social security service at the national level called the National Insurance Scheme, operated by the Ministry of Social Security. In this project coverage includes old-age pensions, disability pensions, survivors’ and maternity benefits and compensation for work injuries. Moreover, the government also implemented...
Trinidad and Tobago’s safety net covers sickness and maternity leave, old age, disability and survivors of war, besides work injury under the National Insurance Board. The country is responsible as well for the National Social Development Programme, a special programme designed to assist low income communities by providing and improving t...
The Social Security System offers several different insurance schemes related to work, such as the Unemployment Insurance, the Adolescence Work Insurance, the Domestic Help Insurance, and the Income Insurance. Besides, workers count with a protection Law. which states that all workers must have an individual retirement account and an individua...
El Salvador has a private pension scheme which regulates the establishment and operation of pension fund administrators and contains rules to protect the rights of members. Individuals (and their spouses) covered by the system are entitled to sickness and maternity benefits, care for work related injuries, and pensions on the basis of old age ...
Mi Familia Progressa (MFP) is a conditional cash transfer coordinated by the Board of Social Cohesion in Guatemala. It was created in April 2008 through the Government Agreement 117-2008 and modified by the 273-2008 Agreement from 22 October 2008. It provides an Education benefit of GTQ150 and a Health and Nutritional benefit of GTQ150 per ho...
Honduras has social security coverage including old-age pensions, disability pensions, survivors’ and maternity benefits, and compensation for work injuries.
Mexico’s social security programme provides health care to formal sector workers and their families. Those outside the social security network receive health care through a wide array of government sources, such as the cash transfer programme, Oportunidades. In addition to the pension system, there is a mandatory private pension s...
According to the Organic Law of Social Secuity, Decree No 974/ 03-1982, Article 52 of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute is the organisation responsible for the Pension System in the country.
Panama’s social security system covers most permanent employees in the formal sector. It protects beneficiaries in case of sickness and maternity leave, old age, disability and survivors of wars.
Almost all PICs have social insurance programmes (generally either national provident funds or superannuation schemes) that aim to provide those in formal and semi-formal employment with either lump-sum or pension benefits based on defined contributions when the fund/scheme member reaches either retirement age or qualifies under some ot...
Almost all PICs have social insurance programmes (generally either national provident funds or superannuation schemes) that aim to provide those in formal and semi-formal employment with either lump-sum or pension benefits based on defined contributions when the fund/scheme member reaches either retirement age or qualifies under some other specific...
Through its association with New Zealand, Cook Islands has one of the most comprehensive social security/protection systems in the region. The system comprises a national provident fund (NPF) with approximately 2500-3000 members. All employed persons are required to be members of the NPF, contributions are paid by both employee and employer. M...
Fiji Islands has a national provident fund which covers approximately 130,000 employed persons, of whom around 36-40% are women. The Fiji NPF is based on similar employee/employer contributory arrangements as other provident funds in the Pacific region. Members’ contributions plus annual interest can be drawn at the official reti...
Kiribati has a National Provident Fund (KNPF) to which all employees are required to contribute; employer and employee each contribute 5% of gross salary/wage which can be drawn, plus annual interest accrued, when the official retirement age (50 years) is reached.
Nauru has a local-government sponsored old-age pension scheme for those over 60 years, each eligible person in the Yaren local government area is entitled to a monthly payment of about $75.
These three north Pacific countries have access to a range of social welfare/insurance programmes administered by both the local as well as the US governments under arrangements set out in their respective Compacts of Free Association.
Papua New Guinea has a national provident fund which covers approximately 72,000 employed persons in the private sector plus all of those in the public sector.
Samoa has a national provident fund which covers approximately 22,000 employed persons, of whom around 40% are women. The Samoa provident fund is based on similar employee/employer contributory arrangements as other provident funds in the Pacific region. Members’ contributions plus annual interest can be drawn at the official ret...
Solomon Islands have a national provident fund which covers approximately 21,000 employed persons of whom around 25% are women.
Tonga has both provident fund and superannuation pension arrangements for public sector employees, membership of each scheme is largely determined by date of joining, new members are enrolled in the contributory provident fund arrangements while older members are mostly in the superannuation scheme.
With the economic crisis of 2001, political and social instability were widespread and unemployment rose sharply. However, nowadays, the country has several safety nets. These programmes include services to specific and vulnerable groups, such as women, children, and the elderly, and some cash transfer programmes to low income families. The co...
On October 2006, through the Supreme Decree 28.899, Bolivia established a cash grant target to 1.2 million children in elementary public school. Juancito Pinto, as it is called, aims to decrease school drop-out rates, and also to improve access to education. It looks at fostering social development in general. The benefit was designed to tackl...
Chile has a mandatory private pension scheme, as well as the social one. The dominant public pension was replaced, and now the public and private sectors share responsibility. The system combines a private, competitively managed mandatory saving scheme with a publicly managed minimum pension guarantee. It system covers sickness, ma...
The social security system has three types of programmes: health insurance provided for medical and hospital coverage, the pension system for disability, old age, and death payments; and the family allowance programme for families earning low salaries – the Famílias en Acción.
Ecuador has a comprehensive social protection network. Employees in the banking, industry, commerce, and government sectors, and also self-employed professionals are covered for most benefits. Agricultural workers are covered for work injury and unemployment benefits and are gradually being included in pension funds and survivors’ and death ...
The social security system, administered by the Social Insurance Institute, offers old-age pensions, invalidity pensions, survivor settlements, sickness and maternity benefits, and work-injury benefits for temporary or permanent disabilities to employed persons and to self-employed workers who elected voluntary coverage. Railroad, ...
The social pension system combines a private, competitively managed mandatory saving scheme with a publicly managed minimum pension guarantee. Social security coverage includes old-age pensions, disability pensions, survivors’ and maternity benefits, and compensation for work injuries.
Uruguay counts with social security coverage including old-age pensions, disability pensions, survivors’ and maternity benefits, and compensation for work injuries. All covered persons must become members of a mandatory private pension scheme.
