Social insurance

3) social insurance and assistance

Source Social Insurance Board, www.ensib.ee

Benefiting from social security programmes.

The National Insurance Institute (NII) is the governmental body responsible for the administration of the social insurance programs.

The right to receive these state benefits is not related to the social insurance contribution payments that the person has made.

In Latvia the maternity benefit is granted to all socially insured persons who on the date when the insurance event occurred are subject to maternity insurance, no special qualification period is set (for example, the length of the in service time or the period of social insurance contribution payments).

Social security may refer to social insurance, where people receive benefits or services in recognition of contributions to an insurance program.

On 18 April 1990, the same Court ordered the company's affairs to be administered under court supervision, this time pursuant to a petition from the Union de recouvrement des cotisations de sécurité sociale et d'allocations familiales (URSSAF) the agency responsible for recovering social security contributions and family allowances and the tax authorities.

The obligatory health insurance funds are collected by the health insurance offices in cantons and Federation and Republika Srpska health insurance funds.

Insurance companies, insurance brokers, and institutions involved with private pension plans or social security

Social Insurance mitigates risks associated with unemployment, ill health, disability, work related injury and old age, such as health insurance or unemployment insurance.

The average insurance contribution wage for the calculation of the sickness benefit must not exceed 50 of 1 365 of the annual maximum amount of the state social insurance compulsory contribution object that was in effect on the date when the insurance case occurred.

Therefore, compulsory contributions to a social insurance scheme must not necessarily result in the payment of insurance benefits.

The lump sum allowance for female workers having paid social insurance for more than 25 years from the 26th year onward will be as equal to that paid for male workers from their 31st year onward respectively.

Article 10 of the Law On Maternity and Sickness Insurance provides that the maternity benefit is granted in the 100 amount of the average insurance contribution wage of the beneficiary.

The system of social security is still developing in Pakistan.

Under the Law On Maternity and Sickness Insurance a sickness benefit is granted and paid in the amount of 80 of the insured person's monthly average insurance contribution wage.

By 2002, about 4.4m people had bought social insurance, of which 3.8 m were from the State sector and accounted for 86.4 of the total buyers.

The protection will be covered by means of the establishment of a collective fund separated from the existing social security fund.

The question of paying pregnancy and maternity benefits with social insurance monies is currently under consideration.

In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, provision and collection of resources is done from health insurance contributions and from the Federation budget, in addition to its Solidarity Fund.

The plans for the different branches of social security in the principal social security institutions in Mexico offer the following forms of insurance and benefits

The sickness benefit paid is equal to 80 of the average monthly wage from which the insured person is making insurance contribution.

Female workers who have paid social insurance for 15 years receive pension equal to 45 of the average monthly salary, which is the basis for payment of social insurance, as applied for male workers.

She did it because she ran a country that had a national health service.

Under that scheme, insurance contributions and general taxation revenues would be geared towards financing cost effective health care for all South Africans.

Although such programs have been substantial in Europe and the US, the working poor remain as marginalized as ever.

Now relevant agencies are helping the Government to finalize the policy on social insurance for voluntary retirement, so that workers from all economic sectors, including farmers and freelance workers can have pension.

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Reduction of employers' contributions towards newly hired employees' insurance, provided that the monthly emolument of the said employees does not exceed the sum of 200,000 drachmas (600 Euro).

During his residence in Switzerland, the author paid contributions to the Swiss social security scheme until he retired in 1995.

Mexico has chosen a targeted insurance scheme for households that are not covered by social security scheme and are too poor to afford private insurance.

Following the entry into force of this Law, the compensation of income in the event of maternity was provided in proportion to social insurance contribution payments made.

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And for each year of paid social insurance, they will receive one half of the average monthly salary up to five months.

Concerning social insurance, the Charter on Social Insurance has been revised in 2003 to include more provisions beneficial to female workers as mentioned above.

The first tier is a pension scheme that is based on social insurance contribution payments and that operates according to the principle of the solidarity of generations.

The granted monthly unemployment benefit must not exceed a double amount of the average monthly insurance contribution wage fixed in the country (at present it is 250 LVL).

Female workers aged 55, having paid social insurance for 25 years and male workers aged 60, having paid social insurance for 30 years, are entitled to equal maximum monthly pension in accordance with the Government's regulations.

The Social Security Act of 1990 is currently being amended to support the pattern, conditions, criteria and process of implementation of the above procedure. It is expected that, if this procedure is approved by the Cabinet, the current social security system may be extended to cover the informal sector by 2006.

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