The Universal Child Allowance (Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH)) for Social Protection was adopted by Decree 1602/09. It is a monthly non-contributory allowance, payable for each child under age 18 (no age limit in the case of a disabled child), up to five children.

Beneficiaries are those family groups that, besides not receiving any other benefit, are unemployed or workers registered as single tax payers/microentrepeneurs ("monotributistas"), or working in the informal labour market or in domestic service, and who earn less than the minimum wage.

In the past, these evaluations were strictly medical and considered only biological aspects. The current model is based on a joint social and medical expert evaluation from a bio-psycho-social perspective, which recognizes existing barriers, as well as performance limitations and restrictions for persons with disabilities.

Currently, 1,972,585 people with disabilities receive benefits in Brazil (Source: SUIBE, Sistema Único de Informações de Benefícios [Unique Benefits Information System, Jul/2012). SUIBE, Jul/2012).

The campaign involved three stages: the first was to alert the population to the risks associated with being overweight and obese; the second focused on emphasizing the consequences of failing to prevent the health problems deriving from excess weight and obesity; and the third focused on emphasizing the responsibility of the IMSS towards the health care of those it serves by providing quality services supported by investment in medical infrastructure and equipment to treat the various chronic and degenerative diseases associated with being overweight and obese.

Cervicouterine cancer is a priority health problem not only on account of its high incidence and severity, but also because it is preventable in nearly 100 per cent of cases.

For this reason the ISSSTE conducts prevention campaigns, such as the Papanicolaou stain survey which in 2011 reached 32 per cent of those covered in the White group between 25 and 69 years old.

This Programme was devised in November 2009, disclosed in the course of a national meeting involving delegates from all national Provinces and implemented in 2010; from then onwards, it operated on the basis of the registration and follow-up of beneficiaries via an on-line system.

This initiative has helped the Institute to cumulate budgetary savings of 268 million United States dollars (US$) and has had a direct impact on achieving 100 per cent of the objectives for various projects such as the improvement of the emergency services.

The technological platform has been upgraded and enhanced several times to ensure that this objective was realized. However, many of the processes were still largely reliant on paper and they were not as seamless and efficient as we would have liked them to be.

To address this aim, an application was designed for public administration to capture the perceptions of a representative sample of users of medical and crèche services, termed the Comprehensive User Satisfaction Measurement System, which involves the following:

The Bank Employees' Pension Fund (CJPB) welcomed this opportunity for improvement and entirely restructured its previous system for the collection of contributions, setting up a distance mechanism (internet) based on a secure connection. This presented a number of advantages including the elimination of transfers of cash and highly sensitive information on paper and over-the counter transactions in the presence of the public, using a distance telecommunication system (SICORE) which enables those concerned to carry out all their tasks from home or wherever they choose, via the web.

In particular, this paper focuses on the need to ensure that short-term labour market adjustment programs support long-term income security objective. It also considers the need for adjustments in Canada's public pensions to make it more workfriendly. After introductory discussion, successive sections discuss various adjustment initiatives and the design of the public pension system, specific gaps and challenges, and

It consists of a global system for the secure registration and dissemination of information (single data source) via the web from the tax administration for all contributing employers, organizations and bodies providing social security benefits using social security resources, intended to structurally fight against informal work while at the same time simplifying the procedures to improve efficiency and reduce administrative costs. It represents progress towards integration and electronic governance.

The objective of this System is to provide workers who are contributing or have contributed to the IMSS with information on the number of weekly contributions per year and on contribution records for the five most recent employers through a more practical, efficient and rapid procedure. In addition to making use of the technological infrastructure, the practice involves savings in resources for both the Institute and the workers concerned.