In order to sustain a sufficient and independent social security programme, the National Social Security Fund for the Non-Salaried Workers (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale des non-salariés – CASNOS, hereafter the Fund) from Algeria has always been faced with the everlasting challenge of maintaining a positive balance, in the present and the future, between its expenses and its main income from contribution collection.

In view of the current economic conditions, which has been witnessed worldwide, highly affecting the economies of developing countries, the resulting to high rates of inflation had a direct negative impact on the economic situation and came as a hard blow to the population of those countries, including Egypt. The crises required a speedy intervention through the Public Treasury and the Social Insurance System in Egypt to address this problem and reduce the burden on pensioners and survivors and to improve living standards

This work aims to present the National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social − INSS) of Brazil Mentoring Programme, instituted on 20 April 2021, through the Ordinance INSS/PRES No. 1295/2021.

The programme was designed and instituted to manage knowledge at the INSS, value public servants who reach the institution’s goals and support public servants who do not reach their goals.

Uruguay’s Social Insurance Bank (Banco de Previsión Social – BPS) manages the National System of Labour Certification, (Sistema Nacional de Certificación Laboral – SNCL), which centralizes the register of medical leave certificates for active workers for social security purposes.

The Colombian Pension Administrator (Administradora Colombiana de Pensiones – Colpensiones) carried out a study with the support of academics and international experts, looking to build closer and more direct relationships with older people and develop a deeper understanding of their needs. In addition, the study looked to assess the economic dynamics of the different resources and income sources of the silver market, which represents an estimated 12 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

To qualify its employees, the National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social – INSS) of Brazil has opened an internal selection for 125 vacancies in master’s courses and 180 vacancies in MBA’s courses at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV).

The Seychelles Pension Fund (SPF or the Fund) undertook an extensive review of its investment management framework and related practices in 2021 and 2022. The exercise focussed on improving the institution’s Investment Policy framework, so that operations are aligned to international best practice and the prescriptions of the ISSA Guidelines.

The National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social − INSS) of Brazil, is annually responsible for millions of analyses of requirements related to social security benefits, assistance and services requested by the Brazilian population. While some of these requirements are automated, human analysis is essential for more complex requirements or when not all information is available in the institutional systems.

Burundi’s National Pension and Occupational Risks Office for Civil Servants, Magistrates and Judicial Personnel (Office national des pensions et risques professionnels des fonctionnaires, des magistrats et des agents de l’ordre judiciaire – ONPR) is a state body that plays a role in implementing national social protection policy.

To date, the ONPR has been in existence for 11 years, giving it 11 years of experience, and it seeks to ensure its sustainable development.

New theories have emerged for the addressing and managing of risks, which help to categorize them based on the type of organization in question. In addition, standards and methodological tools have been established to determine control and monitoring actions that measure and proactively address the impact of these potential risks. All of this has led the Social Insurance Fund of Costa Rica (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social – CCSS) to take comprehensive steps to address the risks to which it is exposed.

In view of the pandemic and the closure of social security agencies, with the consequent stoppage of face-to-face assistance, mainly affecting medical expertise, the Federal Court of Accounts ordered the Ministry of Social Security (Ministério da Previdência – MTP), of Brazil to carry out the expertise through tele-medicine.

“Mi trabajo” (My work) is a service for mobile phones or devices that can be accessed through the “Mi Argentina” (My Argentina) app. Its aim is to provide employees with information on their current employment situation. Through the app, people in employment can learn whether they are being registered correctly.

The service also offers the possibility to file complaints with Argentina’s Federal Administration of Public Resources (Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos – AFIP) in the event that the employee user observes any irregularities.

The virtual web-based assistant of the IPS National Social Insurance Fund (IPS Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale – IPS CNPS) was launched in May 2022. Available on the institution’s website for insured persons, whether employees, employers or self-employed workers, this assistant is the new on-demand advisor. In the space of a few clicks, it gives the insured person information on the modalities and payment of social security contributions and guides them through their claims and document requests.

The idea of setting up self-service areas in Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR) receptions stems from a desire to offer users open access to the CMR’s digital services, while ensuring reception and orientation staff are on hand to provide support and guidance in their use.

This type of space offers a range of digital services, enabling users, for example, to access their data, monitor the status of their files, and editing or uploading requested documents.

Open Lab is an innovation space created by the Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR), based on an ecosystem-oriented business model. It relies on the collective intelligence of participants (collaborators, users, partners and other stakeholders) to design and test innovative solutions to the “pain points” encountered by users and/or to develop new services or products, improve internal processes and implement new methodology.

Motivated by a desire to participate in the cultural education of children, the National Social Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale – CNPS) of Cameroon has launched reading and discussion sessions of African tales for children of staff and those who live in the neighbourhood.

The legislation governing social security and its litigation is specific in nature, insofar as this field is governed by procedures that are very different from the ones applied in ordinary law. The situation was further complicated by the fact that the courts responsible for handling social security litigation in Cameroon lacked the necessary specialized knowledge, leading several courts to render decisions that were inconsistent with the letter and spirit of the legislation governing social security.

Article 12 of Law No. 5508 on the Promotion, Protection of Maternity and Support for Breastfeeding establishes that maternity allowance should be paid to employed women by the social security scheme of Paraguay’s Social Insurance Institute (Instituto de Previsión Social – IPS). This amount is equivalent to 100 per cent of her salary at the time of delivery, and is paid for the prescribed months of rest. This used to be given to women in a single payment.

In 2022, the National Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale – CNPS) entered into a three-year partnership with Cameroon’s Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (Ministère de l’Élevage, des Pêches et des Industries animales – MINEPIA) to extend social security coverage to workers in the informal economy of the livestock and fish farming, aquaculture, animal and fisheries industries sub-sector.

The project looked to implement an ICT system to allow information to be shared electronically between the social security body of Argentina’s Federal Social Insurance Council (Consejo Federal de Previsión Social – COFEPRES), the Retirement and Pension Fund of the Entre Ríos Province (Caja de Jubilaciones y Pensiones de la Provincia de Entre Ríos), and employers via the Digital Service Demonstration Worksheet (Planilla Demostrativa de Servicios – PDSD), as and when requested by the staff of the Retirement and Pension Fund.

The information and communication technology (ICT) contingency plan is the ICT component of a service continuity plan. The plan forms part of an overall approach to safeguard the ICT system.

In light of guideline 12. Managing service continuity, from the ISSA Guidelines on Information and Communication Technology, implementing a service continuity plan allows activities to be restarted as soon as possible, minimising data loss and the consequences of an unplanned interruption to activities.

With a view to increasing social security coverage among non-salaried workers and ensuring contributor loyalty, Algeria’s National Social Security Fund for Non-Salaried Workers (Caisse nationale de la sécurité sociale des non-salariés – CASNOS) launched a portal centred on a workflow of human interaction, digital processes and technology.

The National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social − INSS) of Brazil has offered a web platform which will facilitate the effective application of social security and welfare regulations, and promote social inclusion.

The Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social – IESS) is the country’s largest social security institution, with 3,727,522 members. The institution makes use of face-to-face, telephone and digital channels, including Instagram, Facebook, email, telephone, an electronic booking system and Skype.

It is necessary to strengthen HIV prevention measures through the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Since the year 2021, the use of PrEP has been initiated nationwide in Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social ‒ IMSS), being the first institutional initiative in our country. At the last cut-off, there were 2130 people in treatment with Emtricitabine/Tenofovir distributed throughout the national territory, although most of them are in Mexico City and suburban areas.

The Healthy Finances Programme of Costa Rica’s Pension and Retirement Board of the National Teachers' Union (Junta de Pensiones y Jubilaciones del Magisterio Nacional – JUPEMA) is an initiative that allows participating members to improve their knowledge on how to comprehensively handle their finances, addressing each of the different dimensions of human behaviour.  This programme offers emotional and financial tools that positively impact members’ quality of life.

The JUPEMA Entrepreneurship (JUPEMA Emprende) programme is a service provided by Costa Rica’s Pension and Retirement Board of the National Teachers’ Union (Junta de Pensiones y Jubilaciones del Magisterio Nacional – JUPEMA). It was started at the end of 2022, with the philosophy of providing resources for entrepreneurship training and consultation to our members. Its aim is to improve the intellectual, emotional and material skills of participants, positively impacting their quality of life on the basis of the principles and values of the social and solidarity economy.

In Argentina, joint trade union–employer agreements (Convenios de Corresponsabilidad Gremial – CCG) encourage the formalization of employment relationships, primarily in rural areas. They are agreements between workers’ representative bodies with trade union status and employers, which aim to facilitate social security access for workers and their families.

Social security is such a fundamental human right that it is absolutely vital for any responsible government to put in place mechanisms to ensure it for all.

The State can proceed by sector of activity. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there was one category of public-sector employees – career civil servants – who benefitted from a good social protection system as part of a contributory scheme. Other types of public-sector employees, such as the military, police, teachers and magistrates, were not covered.

The Institutional Digital Medical Imaging Network (Red Digital Institucional de Imágenes Médicas – REDIMED) project consists of providing the Social Insurance Fund of Costa Rica (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social – CCSS) with a comprehensive digital imaging solution that offers institutional coverage and will improve response time, diagnosis and quality of patient care. We also look to add value to the Single Digital Health Record (Expediente Digital Único en Salud – EDUS) by integrating the two solutions.

Efficient service delivery in the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Zambia calls for the speedy processing of claims from health care providers (HCPs) that have provided services to NHIS members and beneficiaries.

As part of the National Health Insurance Management Authority’s (NHIMA) service level agreements with HCPs, all approved claims for services rendered must be paid within 45 days. To enhance efficiency and reduce fraud in claims, NHIMA introduced the biometric claims management system called APACE.

The Santa Fe Municipal Fund (Caja Municipal de la ciudad de Santa Fe) of Argentina’s Federal Social Insurance Council (Consejo Federal de Previsión Social – COFEPRES) is a social security body created in 1904 by Ordinance 554. It was the first of its kind in the country and is an autarchic entity staffed by civil servants and employees of the Municipality of Santa Fe.

In 2022, Morocco’s CDG Prévoyance signed an agreement with the State to manage the Tayssir Programme, one of the country’s most important welfare programmes, dedicated to reducing the rate of school drop-outs among the most vulnerable segments of the population.

The project is called Compilation of suggestions. It brings together all of the opinions, suggestions and comments given by users of the products and services of the National Social Security Fund of Public State Employees (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale des agents publics de l’État − CNSSAP) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a given period, as well as the improvements that have been made on the basis of this user feedback. It is shared with staff, members and other interested parties.

Mexico’s Retirement Savings System (Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro – SAR) is an efficient way of financing pensions that ensure people can live a dignified life once they stop working. Social and economic protection in old age is a constitutional responsibility of the State, and this right must be supported by individualized, reliable, transparent and securely safeguarded records and information. In this way, it is possible to guarantee the person is able to fully exercise their social right.

The law passed in February 2022 defined how to proceed in the event of a major mutual fund closing for reasons of non-viability, establishing incorporation criteria for members and employees within a new structure. In accordance with the legislative criteria, the Catholic Workers’ Circle of the Uruguay Mutual Fund (Círculo Católico de Obreros del Uruguay Mutualista) was one of the institutions included in this process.

Insurable earnings ceilings are automatically adjusted in line with total consumption poverty line (TCPL). This is one of the effective ways to ensure sustainability of the schemes in a hyper-inflationary environment. Statutory reviews of the ceilings would take a considerable time to the time of gazetting the statutory instrument, and the value of those earnings would be eroded by inflation.

The Health Care Administration and Management Platform (Ambiente para la Administración y Manejo de Atenciones en Salud – AAMATES) of Mexico’s State Employees’ Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado – ISSSTE) is a sectoral initiative run jointly by the National Digital Strategy Committee (Coordinación de Estrategia Digital Nacional) and the Ministry of Health that is aimed at standardizing clinical processes in medical units at the primary care level at the national level, which mak

The Brazilian social security works as a system that guarantees income for workers and their families in case of illness, accident, imprisonment, pregnancy, death, or advanced age. In turn, it is composed by three programmes: the General Programme (RGPS)[1], the Specific Programme (RPPS)[2], and the Complementary Pension Programme (RPC)[3]. The latter is individual while the first two are public.

Crises and extreme events may strain the capacity to communicate records of medical leave to subsidiary cash benefit units. The pandemic has demonstrated the need to systematize procedures that have traditionally been carried out manually, which would provide significant benefits by making processes faster and more efficient, avoid the need for users to visit administrative offices, thereby avoiding expenditure, risks and outbreaks, and reduce spending on institutional resources.

E-recourse (télérecours) is the electronic submission of requests by employers in the construction, public works and hydraulics (CPWH) sectors for relief from surcharges and penalties relating to the late declaration of contributions due or activities, or of the annual declaration of wages and employees (déclaration annuelle des salaires et des salariés – DAS).

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF, hereafter the Fund) is a national provident fund for workers who are not covered by the public service pension scheme in Uganda. Members holding physical card has long been evidence of membership to the Fund. This has been a critical part of the customer journey and experience. The NSSF membership card had taken different forms over the years evolving from handwritten cards to laminated papers to plastic cards up to now when NSSF is offering a smart card.

The Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social – IESS) has a total of 18,418 active Ecuadorian members living abroad, as of 31 December 2022. In order to enquire about or apply for benefits, they must log in to the IESS ICT system, using a username and password. If they don’t have access to the account password, members can request a password reset and a security code will be sent to the email address registered in the IESS system. A large percentage of members living abroad have forgotten their registered email address.

The launch of the Institutional Corporate University (Universidad Corporativa Institucional – UCID) forms part of the learning transformation strategy of Costa Rica’s Pension and Retirement Board of the National Teachers’ Union (Junta de Pensiones y Jubilaciones del Magisterio Nacional – JUPEMA). The UCID was established to develop workers’ knowledge and skills, strengthening both their technical and their soft skills, forming a network of internal facilitators, and innovating in teaching and learning methods.

The ACCION digital inspection report (Acta de Inspección Digital – ACCION) is an IT tool that enables the digital and automated management of a massive, centralized audit procedure, based on surveys of irregular employment relationships conducted by control bodies such as Argentina’s Federal Administration of Public Resources (Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos – AFIP) and Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social – MTEySS).

The Single Digital Record (Acta Digital Única – ADU) of Argentina’s Superintendency of Occupational Risks (Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo – SRT) is a public instrument for ensuring that inspections comply with standards on the prevention of occupational risks in employer establishments. These inspections are carried out by over 100 SRT inspectors and 470 inspectors from the Local Labour Administrators (Administradoras de Trabajo Local – ATL) from the provincial jurisdictions.

After a legislative change, the Social Insurance Institution (Zaklad Ubezpieczen Spolecznych − ZUS) took over from 1 July 2021 a government programme for families in Poland called Dobry start (Good start) 300plus, aimed at parents of children attending school.

Since its first appearance in October 2021, Brazilians have managed to get faster responses from the government’s social security institute. A new automation tool has been responsible for more than 2.5 million of automatic actions at Brazil’s National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social − INSS).

Teachers associated with Derrama Magisterial (DM) in Peru can benefit from a number of different services, including a credit service.

This credit service offers loans to teachers. In the past, to secure a loan, the contractual process required teachers to sign documents by hand to create a credit file. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to find innovative ways to digitalize these contractual documents, which is why the digital file service was launched.

The Brazilian General Social Security Programme is responsible for the payment of approximately 38 million benefits monthly, reaching the amount of 11.4 billion US dollars (USD) – 58 billion Brazilian real (BRL) – paid monthly. The operation is controlled by the Brazilian National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social – INSS), and the management of systems is carried out by DATAPREV - Social Security Information and Technology Enterprise (DATAPREV - Empresa de Tecnologia e Informações da Previdência Social).

Well-being is at the heart of Colombia’s COMPENSAR - Family Allowances Fund (COMPENSAR - Caja de Compensación Familiar). This has been a process of evolution, complemented by Amartya Sen’s theory that “you can understand a person’s well-being by analysing the quality of their life, which can be considered as a set of interrelated “functionings”, consisting of states and actions”.

The issue of population growth and social security planning is one of the biggest challenges facing governments today, and is a key part of a good social security system that instils confidence in its members.

The Retirement and Pension Fund for Employees of Banks and Related Institutions (Caja de Jubilaciones y Pensiones de Empleados de Bancos y Afines) (Bank Fund, hereinafter) is in constant communication with its members. It therefore continuously updates its databases, in order to have a better understanding of members’ current realities, experiences and needs.

With a view to strengthening its communication with beneficiaries, and as a straightforward way of making them aware of their rights and responsibilities, the Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR) has produced a series of animated clips entitled “أجي نفهموا التقاعد” in Moroccan Arabic, or “Let’s understand retirement” in English.

The Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) adopted in 2021 innovative measure to accommodate the need to complete the past monthly contribution records for the insured who are half-time employed.

Between 2015 and 2017, the National Institute of Social Security (Instituto Nacional de Segurança Social – INSS) of Angola outlined a strategy to ensure the sustainability of social security with a strong focus on modernizing the management and control of social security revenues. With the resources to use information and communication technology (ICT) for its implementation, in the last five years, a set of initiatives have been progressively and intensively operationalized to end with most administrative processes.

The analysis of results recorded by the Tunisian National Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale – CNSS), which was created in December 1960 to tackle numerous challenges (ensuring universal social coverage, restoring financial equilibrium, and securing the continuity of systems), exposes discrepancies between the achieved and expected results.

In line with its mission and vision, Peru’s Derrama Magisterial (DM) is constantly striving to be the primary source of support for teachers in both their personal and professional lives.

Associated teachers make a monthly contribution that is deducted from their salary. This allows them to accumulate a pension pot that they will receive at the end of their working life. It also gives them access to monetary benefits in the event of retirement, total disability, or death.

The body’s poor assimilation of food leads to a pathological state known as malnutrition, which can take varying degrees of severity and have different clinical manifestations. It is considered a disease with high morbidity and mortality rates.

By putting the interest of the pensioner first, Abu Dhabi Pension Fund (ADPF) comprehensively redesigned its approach to serve its client base of over 91,639 active members, including 12,941 pensioners and 7,805 beneficiaries.

With a renewed focus on the client and by harnessing the power of digital transformation as well as adopting a product-based approach (versus project-based), ADPF has not only significantly improved how the services are orchestrated and offered to customers, but also achieved a satisfaction rate of over 83 per cent.

The project, “Care plan management for psychological illnesses following accidents” (Steuerung des Heilverfahrens bei psychischen Erkrankungen nach Unfällen), involves three components: the extension of case management to cover psychological disorders, the development of an e-learning seminar to train case workers, and the development and evaluation of a diagnostic algorithm. This comprehensive approach aims to bring about an overall improvement in the quality of care for patients who develop psychological disorders following a work accident.

Digital transformation is happening in institutions through the integration of new technologies. This vision represents an institutional and social change, optimizing available resources, reducing costs, shortening processes and procedures, and raising awareness of the importance and benefits of this transformation.

As part of the process of becoming a flexible and digital organization, COLSUBSIDIO - Colombian Family Allowances Fund (COLSUBSIDIO - Caja Colombiana de Subsidio Familiar) implemented the digitalization of the social housing acquisition process, thereby improving the experience of beneficiaries and optimizing the time spent on the various stages. This is a strategy that contributes to reducing the carbon footprint by avoiding travel and using less paper.

The solution implemented by the Social Insurance Institution (Zaklad Ubezpieczen Spolecznych − ZUS) in the form of digitisation of files is a key element in the era of universal access to documentation in electronic form. This ensures an efficient and comprehensive support for ZUS customers as well as priority task performance by employees. In view of the experience gained so far and based on the high results of digitisation, ZUS plans to extend the process further to other areas of activity.

The good clinical practice implemented at the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital (Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins – HNERM), part of Peru’s EsSalud - Social Health Insurance Institute (EsSalud - Seguro Social de Salud), looked to prevent complications of infections in paediatric patients with onco-haematological diseases and febrile neutropenia.

The Kenyan Pension Governance Structure has been modelled to factor independence of service providers, regulators and trustees. The Trustees sit at the apex of this structure and report on the performance of the schemes to the Regulator (The Retirement Benefits Authority).

Those who do not have a workplace registration at the Social Security Institution (Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu – SSI) and want to benefit from state aid, incentives or supports, will be able to get an “e-Government Application for Workplace Registration and Social Security Debt Status” document from the e-Government Application through the use of internal and external web services.

In Malaysia, private sector employers are mandatorily required to make retirement contributions on behalf of employees to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). However, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have failed to comply with the law since they do not have a proper payroll management system in place.

The EPF has developed a free basic payroll solution that is available to all private sector employers:

As part of the actions carried out at the Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social – IMSS) to promote equality and gender perspectives and prevent discrimination and violence, the “equal in rights, we unite for equality” (Iguales en derechos, nos unimos por la igualdad) strategy was developed jointly with the National Union of Social Security Workers (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Seguro Social – SNTSS).

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peru’s EsSalud - Social Health Insurance Institute (EsSalud - Seguro Social de Salud) was not able to provide patients with a single diagnosis of arterial hypertension with adequate check-ups due to the suspension of some services and the health regulations in place at the time. This led to an increase in hypertensive patients with diabetes mellitus (in 2020, there were 15 per cent more hypertensive patients with diabetes mellitus).

In accordance with our organization’s strategic plan to provide pensionable services that enrich the customer’s experience, the Abu Dhabi Pension Fund (the Fund) launched in 2018 an initiative to provide all the customers’ informational and transactional services on mobile application. In line with ISSA Guidelines on Service Quality, Guideline 7.

The Medical Directorate of Mexico’s State Employees’ Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado – ISSSTE), through its National Office of Mental Health (Jefatura Nacional de Salud Mental), prioritizes the implementation of the guidelines set out in the Comprehensive Mental Health Programme (Programa Integral de Salud Mental), as approved by the Board of Directors on 25 March 2021, in order to strengthen the holistic, biopsychosocial care of its users.

The mission of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board is to enable Singaporeans to have a secure retirement.

The Derrama Magisterial Digital Library – CRISOL is a service that Peru’s Derrama Magisterial (DM) has made available to associated teachers, in collaboration with Librerías CRISOL
(a distinguished and recognized bookstore chain that offers a wide and varied range of cultural entertainment and the best level of service in the Peruvian market at national level). This is part of the ongoing efforts to improve the focus on teachers and identify and satisfy their needs.

Since 2021, Peru’s Derrama Magisterial (DM) has been implementing a virtual legal advice service for teachers working in educational institutions nationwide, designed to be provided free of charge.

Spain’s General Treasury of Social Security (Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social – TGSS), part of the Federation of Administrative Bodies of Spanish Social Security (Federación de Entidades Gestoras de la Administración de la Seguridad Social Española – FEGASSE), has always identified itself by its commitment to innovation, using technology as a basis for expanding and strengthening its digital channels and new management models.

Establishing a two-way relation between the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) and social partners, especially the employers, and responding appropriately to their requests and problems with the aim to improve their participation and level of satisfaction has always been one of the major missions of the ISSO’s Socio-Cultural Department. To achieve this, designing and implementing special programmes seems necessary. One of such programmes is the organization of tailored training and consultation to respond to the employers’ questions and problems.

INSSJUD is a system that sends automated communications between the assessment units of Brazil’s National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social – INSS) and the federal and state courts. It enables rulings on social security entitlements to be executed with no manual input from an INSS official, using only the data submitted to PREVJUD, the social security information and automation service (Serviço de Informação e Automação Previdenciário), through which the judiciary sends information to the INSS.

It is more than a year now since we started applying preventive measures to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2, working from home, distancing in the offices, wearing masks in common areas, and all the other restrictions we applied like most other organizations globally.

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is mandated to ensure that the entire Kenyan population is shielded against catastrophic health expenditures which has a potential risk of pushing affected individuals to impoverishment. In execution of this mandate, NHIF undertakes five critical tasks which include beneficiary identification, member registration, revenue collection, empanelment and contracting of hospitals, and claims and benefits management. NHIF is connected to close to 8,000 health care providers.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an abrupt disruption that caused loss of lives, fear, uncertainty, and anxiety on how to manage the health, social and economic effects. Several of our members ended up needing specialised treatment from private medical facilities. Being unprecedented, insurance companies had limitations on coverage since this was a pandemic. This meant that members had to resort to out-of-pocket payment to cover the enormous medical bills.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a special focus on the need for data, digital connectivity, and technology in the Namibian Social Security Commission (SSC) as might have been experienced in many other member countries of the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

At the dawn of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Social Security Commission, launched, in collaboration with the Government of Namibia, the National Employment and Salary Protection Scheme (NESPS) for COVID-19 to strengthen the national response to the pandemic.

The Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO), as the largest insurance provider throughout the country, while being responsible for the implementation, generalization and coverage extension of various social insurance programmes, plays a key role in supporting and protecting the most important capital for production in the country, namely human resource.

According to the regulations (Article 38 of Iranian Social Security Law), all of the contracts made between the Government and its contractors are subject to the social security law and the contractors are legally obliged to pay their contribution share to the Iranian Social security Organization (ISSO). The former method involved determining the contribution ratio after the contract conclusion, which led to some ambiguous cost items resulting in contradictions among the ISSO, employer, and contractor.

Given the role of social partners, especially the employers in generating revenues for the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO), it is of significant importance to organize training workshops for employers and their insurance affiliates. This is to improve interactions with those organizations and enhance the employers’ knowledge on social insurance laws and regulations as well as social insurance benefits and services.

The royal project to expand social security coverage in Morocco was launched in accordance with Framework Law No. 09-21 on social protection. The implementation of the royal project to expand social security coverage has been entrusted to the National Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale – CNSS), a major player in social protection in Morocco and will take place in line with a staggered implementation schedule.

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Physical identification is necessary to ensure the maintenance of entitlements for recipients of social benefits who receive them via financial institutions or mobile phone operators. However, such identification has limitations because it only takes place once a year.

However, recipients may pass away after identification. Given the unreliability of the civil registration system, the agency has no means of halting payment of benefits for the rest of the year. If left unchecked, this kind of situation can lead to financial losses for the organization.

This methodological corpus for regulating health cover is a tool produced for use by social security institutions that are working to extend health insurance coverage in their country.

With the publication of the agreement establishing the provisions and administrative manual on the widespread implementation of internal controls, the most recent version of which was published on 5 September 2018, the Public Services Secretariat (Secretaría de la Función Pública) established criteria on internal controls, which must be observed in areas covered by the Federal Public Administration (Administración Pública Federal).

Disseminating information on the Occupational Risk System and interacting with relevant stakeholders are two key functions of Argentina’s Superintendency of Occupational Risks (Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo – SRT).

Setting up managed entry agreements for innovative medicines is a step forward in Improving access to innovative and costly medicines. They give the Tunisian National Health Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie – CNAM) considerable leverage to negotiate with pharmaceutical laboratories to ensure access for the maximum number of people eligible for the treatment, whilst also guaranteeing the budgetary sustainability of the system.

Argentina’s Superintendency of Occupational Risks (Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo – SRT) has a customer service unit that provides face-to-face, telephone and online assistance on behalf of all the organization’s departments and units. This unit is responsible for answering and handling queries and claims received through a number of established channels. It also gives advice on issues related to the Occupational Risk System and the management of the Medical Commissions, helping citizens to initiate procedures within the SRT, among other things.

Social Security Institution (Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu – SSI) of Turkey makes monthly payments to 13 million pensioners through a centralized payment system. In this payment system, the bank account information that the pensioners request to receive the pension is obtained at the time of application. Some deductions are made legally from the pensions of pensioners. Examples of these deductions are enforcement of debt payments, alimony payment, healthcare co-payments for treatments and medications, tax and premium debt deductions, excessive or undue payment made for any reason.

Since 2020, Costa Rica’s economy has been seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the resultant drop in household income generating other financial needs. For this reason, the Pension and Retirement Board of the National Teachers’ Union (Junta de Pensiones y Jubilaciones del Magisterio Nacional – JUPEMA) has developed a credit line to purchase debts at very favourable conditions.

Risk management is a fairly new concept within the Seychelles Pension Fund (SPF) which was established in 2018. As SPF is committed to creating a comprehensive risk management programme to ensure that risk is properly monitored and integrated in on-going management of each section, a new tool was necessary to complement our existing risk register. The tool is Excel based and has provided SPF with a systematic process to better manage and control section risks holistically.

The need to care for older patients with chronic illnesses in a more human-centred and effective way inspired this good clinical practice at the Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo National Hospital (Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo), which is part of the Lambayeque Health Care Network (Red Prestacional Lambayeque) and Peru’s EsSalud - Social Health Insurance Institute (EsSalud - Seguro Social de Salud).

The Cordoba Retirement and Pension Fund (Caja de Jubilaciones, Pensiones y Retiros de Córdoba – CJPRC), run by Argentina’s Federal Social Insurance Council (Consejo Federal de Previsión Social – COFEPRES), underwent a management process that enabled its transformation from an institution with certain digitalized processes to a fully-fledged digital organization. This document sets out the good practices that facilitated this transformation.

Morocco’s Supervisory Authority of Insurance and Social Welfare (Autorité de contrôle des assurances et de la prévoyance sociale – ACAPS) has developed a simulation software package specifically for basic medical coverage in order to strengthen its supervisory mission, to support bodies charged with managing basic compulsory health insurance (CHI) schemes, and to respond to requests for technical advice from other institutions.

In order to put its beneficiaries, especially those most vulnerable, at the heart of everything it does, the National Social Insurance Fund of Chad (Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale – CNPS) has established a mechanism for paying bedridden people (pensioners and annuitants) in their own homes.

When payments are due, a team made up of social workers and an accountant visits the homes of these bedridden people to make the necessary payments.

Argentina’s Superintendency of Occupational Risks (Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo – SRT) offers training on occupational risk prevention and the functioning of the Occupational Risk System. This training is available for workers, employers, public and private bodies, trade unions and trade associations and all levels of educational establishments, as well as any other social actor that needs this service.

The Superintendency of Health Services (Superintendencia de Servicios de Salud – SSSalud) has designed a tool to try and reduce late payments and arrears in Argentina and better manage the difficulties faced by health-care establishments in obtaining payment for services delivered.