Database

Good Practices in Social Security

Database

Good Practices in Social Security

ISSA Database of Good Practices

This database provides ISSA members with privileged access to good practices, showcasing creative, smart and innovative ways to overcome challenges of social security administration at the institutional, national or international levels. Explore, be inspired by, and learn from these hard-earned and well-deserved successes of the ISSA members. Learn more about the ISSA Good Practices.

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Implementation year:
2016
Award Year:
2018
Viet Nam Social Security
,
Viet Nam
,
Asia and Pacific

Viet Nam has about 80.9 million citizens participating in healthcare insurance (HI), covering over 86 per cent of the population. The Viet Nam Social Security (VSS) now faces big challenges in the inspection of HI payments: how to manage the increasing and huge amounts of HI participant data (hundreds of millions of HI payment requests need to be inspected annually) as well as how to provide timely implementation of all HI policies and ensure the quality of social security service.

Topic:
Health insurance
Data management
Error, evasion and fraud
Implementation year:
2023
Award Year:
2024
Social Security Institution
,
Türkiye
,
Europe

In the Turkish social security system, some of the in-cash benefits are temporary incapacity allowances, funeral grants, breastfeeding grants, celiac and metabolic diseases payments, and disposable Underpad Payments. Those payments are made directly to individuals’ bank accounts.

Topic:
Health
Cash sickness benefits
Health insurance
Disability
Maternity
Information and communication technology
Service quality
Automated processing
Digital economy
Implementation year:
2023
Award Year:
2024
Social Insurance Institution
,
Finland
,
Europe

We were predicting that a large number of persons who had fled the Russian aggression in Ukraine to Finland and are under temporary protection would become customers of the Social Insurance Institution (Kansaneläkelaitos – Kela) after residing in the country for one year and thus getting broader entitlement to Kela benefits. The risk was that our customer service would get strained by many new customers seeking assistance and that our benefits processing would get overloaded with a large number of new applications under a relatively short period.

Topic:
Health
Health insurance
Family benefits
Children
Governance and administration
Extension of coverage
Difficult-to-cover groups
Communication
Service quality
Migration
Shocks & extreme events
Transparency of working rules
Implementation year:
2023
Award Year:
2024
Social Security Institution
,
Türkiye
,
Europe

The DG Universal Health Insurance (DG UHI) established under the Social Security Institution (Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu – SGK) of Türkiye develops policies and regulates the universal health insurance sector, which concerns almost the entire Turkish population.

Topic:
Health
Health insurance
Human resource management
Business process
Data sharing
Service quality
Transparency of working rules
Implementation year:
2022
Award Year:
2024
Central Fund of Social Agricultural Mutual Benefit Societies
,
France
,
Europe

The main role of the Innovative Digital Factory (Fabrique Digitale Innovante – FDI) is to lead digital processes within the Central Fund of Social Agricultural Mutual Benefit Societies (Caisse centrale de la mutualité sociale agricole – CCMSA) network in France. It intervenes after the initial design processes or as soon as a need is identified relating to a particular area (health, family, retirement, corporate, etc.).

Topic:
Health
Health insurance
Family benefits
Old-age pensions
Innovation capacity
Information and communication technology
Service quality
Mutual benefit societies
Implementation year:
2022
Award Year:
2024
Department of Social Protection
,
Ireland
,
Europe

Ireland’s Budget 2022 included an announcement that those suffering from alopecia and cancer could avail of a 500 euros (EUR) grant towards the cost of a hair replacement product subject to meeting certain Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) criteria. Other changes to treatment benefit qualification were also announced with an implementation date of May 2022.

Topic:
Health
Health insurance
Disability
Information and communication technology
Extension of coverage
Communication
Service quality
Social policies & programmes
Implementation year:
2021
Award Year:
2024
Central Fund of Social Agricultural Mutual Benefit Societies
,
France
,
Europe

A Knowledge management system is a system designed to facilitate the sharing and updating of knowledge, and to disseminate knowledge that may be unknown or dispersed throughout the organization.

Through the Essentiels portals, the Central Fund of Social Agricultural Mutual Benefit Societies (Caisse centrale de la mutualité sociale agricole – CCMSA) of France has adopted a system which focuses on the links between individual and collective skills, the application of legislation and the coordination of resulting actions.

Topic:
Health insurance
Family benefits
Old-age pensions
Business process
Information and communication technology
Data management
Service quality
Mutual benefit societies
Implementation year:
2021
Award Year:
2024
National Family Allowances Fund
,
France
,
Europe

Creating “user pathways” is central to strengthening access to rights for Family Branch users. It allows us to provide comprehensive support at specific key moments in users’ lives, such as having children and during a separation.

Topic:
Health insurance
Family benefits
Coordination
Extension of coverage
Service quality
One-stop shops
Demographic change
Social policies & programmes
Transparency of working rules
Implementation year:
2020
Award Year:
2024
Council for the Social Protection of Self-Employed Workers
,
France
,
Europe

France’s Council for the Social Protection of Self-Employed Workers (Conseil de la protection sociale des travailleurs indépendants – CPSTI) was created in 2019.

The internal monitoring and control of its activities is entrusted to the general scheme social security bodies (the branches working on old age, sickness and social security collection) and is based on the organization, reference systems and control plans of each branch.

Topic:
Health insurance
Old-age pensions
Governance and administration
Coordination
Difficult-to-cover groups
Contribution collection and compliance
Quality assessment
Programme & evaluation
Error, evasion and fraud
Implementation year:
2020
Award Year:
2024
Central Fund of Social Agricultural Mutual Benefit Societies
,
France
,
Europe

Bringing public services closer to citizens is a question of equality and social cohesion. In some areas, service users have the feeling they have been left behind. To combat this feeling, the State has joined forces with nine operators, including social security operators, to set up new local “France Services” reception centres.

This allows service users to receive the necessary support with their administrative procedures in one place, which can be reached in less than 30 minutes.

Topic:
Health
Health insurance
Family benefits
Old-age pensions
Coordination
Service quality
One-stop shops
Mutual benefit societies
Implementation year:
2016
Award Year:
2024
Agricultural Social Insurance Fund
,
Poland
,
Europe

The eKRUS is an IT system of the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (Kasa Rolniczego Ubezpieczenia Społecznego – KRUS) of Poland made available to the public via the Internet, dedicated to people insured with KRUS: farmers, farmers’ spouses and household members subject to social or health insurance, and members of their families reported by KRUS to health insurance.

Topic:
Cash sickness benefits
Health insurance
Maternity
Information and communication technology
Digital inclusion
Communication
Contribution collection and compliance
Service quality