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Over 84,000 Nigerians enrolled in micro pension plan –PENCOM | nigeria | The National Pension Commission (PenCom), yesterday revealed that over 84,000 Nigerians have enrolled in the ongoing Micro Pension plan. This was even as the Commission reiterated that it will continue to embark on massive awareness to ensure more Nigerians key into the initiative. |
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/over-84000-nigerians-enrolled-in-micro-pension-pl… | pmassetti | ||||||
Wideangle: How much does Europe spend on pensions? | european union | The New European (10.11.2022) A guide to how pensions are funded across the continent |
Pensions | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-much-does-europe-spend-on-pensions/ | pmassetti | ||||
Digitizing cash transfers to remote rural populations: challenges and solutions from the experience of Zambia | zambia | .worldbank.org (30.09.2022) There is currently a major focus on digitization within African countries, with the interest of, on the one hand, increasing efficiency and lowering the cost-of-service delivery, and on the other hand, increasing financial inclusion for excluded parts of the… |
Information and communication technology, Cash transfers | Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail… | pmassetti | ||||
Chile's Boric announces plan to end private pension system | chile | Windsor Star (02.11.2022) Chile’s President Gabriel Boric on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to reform the country’s controversial private pension system. In a televised address, Boric said he was planning to end Chile’s Pension Fund Administrators (AFP) system in lieu of a new… |
Pensions | Published_SS_Monitor | https://windsorstar.com/pmn/business-pmn/chiles-boric-announces-plan-to-end-pri… | pmassetti | ||||
Long-term care in the context of population ageing: a rights-based approach to universal coverage | ILO Working paper 82. (Nov 2022) With the acceleration of population ageing, the achieving of healthy ageing is becoming a global imperative and social protection policies and social security systems have an important role to play in this endeavour. |
Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/working-papers/WCMS_858784/lang--en/ind… | pmassetti | ||||||
US: Using artificial intelligence to identify administrative errors in unemployment insurance | United States | Government Information Quarterly (October 2022) Administrative errors in unemployment insurance (UI) decisions give rise to a public values conflict between efficiency and efficacy. We analyze whether artificial intelligence (AI) – in particular, methods in machine learning (ML) – can be… |
artificial intelligence | Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X22000946 | pmassetti | ||||
Singapore Introduces New Healthcare Reform Plan | singapore | aseanbriefing.com (21.10.2022) Singapore has recently announced a new healthcare reform plan that will shift the country’s healthcare strategy towards preventive care. The program is called Healthier SG and aims to provide a family physician and one health plan for every resident. The hope is… |
Health | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.aseanbriefing.com/news/singapore-introduces-new-healthcare-reform-p… | pmassetti | ||||
The Role of Digital in the COVID-19 Social Assistance Response | worldbank.org (2022) The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in… |
Information and communication technology | epayment | Published_SS_Monitor_covid19, Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/38104 | pmassetti | ||||
The COVID-19 crisis showed the future of G2P payments should be digital. Here's why | worldbank.org (03.10.2022) The COVID-19 crisis highlighted how digital public infrastructure (DPI) can play a critical role for governments to deliver social assistance quickly and safely. DPI not only allowed governments to reach an unprecedented number of new beneficiaries, it also… |
Published_SS_Monitor_covid19, Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/covid-19-crisis-showed-future-g2p-payments-s… | pmassetti | ||||||
US: Social Security COLA will be 8.7% in 2023, highest increase in 40 years | Social Security beneficiaries can expect an 8.7% boost to benefits in 2023, the Social Security Administration announced. The increase tops the 5.9% cost-of-living adjustment for 2022, which at the time was the highest in four decades. |
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/social-security-cola-will-be-8point7percent-in-… | pmassetti | |||||||
Ireland. Government Pushes Ahead With Pension Auto Enrolment | The government has approved the details of its new pension auto-enrolment scheme in what Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys described as a “generational reform” of the Irish pensions system. The General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System has now been… |
https://www.pensionpolicyinternational.com/ireland-government-pushes-ahead-with… | pmassetti | |||||||
Access to Welfare in the Digital Economy in BRICS Countries | china, india, brazil, Russian Federation | vidhilegalpolicy.in (22.09.2022) Many governments now use digital technology for means testing. For instance, the US uses an Income Eligibility Verification System that links several databases to verify beneficiary income. It also uses a Prisoner Verification System linked to prisoners’… |
Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://vidhilegalpolicy.in/blog/access-to-welfare-in-the-digital-economy-in-br… | pmassetti | |||||
German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed | germany | IZA (Oct 2022) In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we… |
self-employed | Published_SS_Monitor_covid19, Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp15608/ | pmassetti | ||||
Social protection responses to COVID-19 in MENA: Design, implementation and child-sensitivity | Africa | ipcig.org (03.10.2022) COVID-19 has affected all countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and groups already vulnerable before the crisis, such as children, have been particularly affected. Social protection can promote children’s well-being and reduce the negative impacts of… |
Family benefits | Published_SS_Monitor_covid19, Published_SS_Monitor | https://ipcig.org/publication/31730?language_content_entity=en | pmassetti | ||||
Sustainable finance policy a ‘blind spot’ for European pension funds | european union | Pension Policy International (30.09.2022) Some of Europe’s biggest pension funds are not actively engaged in emerging EU-level sustainable finance policy, according to climate think tank InfluenceMap. As reported by European Pensions, the research, which covered 25 of Europe’s largest pension… |
Pensions | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.pensionpolicyinternational.com/sustainable-finance-policy-a-blind-s… | pmassetti | ||||
Income Support for Non-covered Workers during COVID-19: A Review of Policy Responses | iza.org (Sept 2022) This paper provides an overview on the income support measures for non-covered workers implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing the collection of measures and policies in place in each selected country. This document provides a comparative overview of the… |
covid19 | Published_SS_Monitor_covid19, Published_SS_Monitor | https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/pp189/ | pmassetti | |||||
Ireland to increase state pension for those who work beyond 66 | ireland | SaltWire (20.09.2022) Ireland will offer anyone over 66 a higher state pension the longer they stay in work, sidestepping a recommendation by a government-appointed commission to gradually increase the retirement age to 68 to help fund the ageing population. Under the proposed flexible model… |
Old-age pensions | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/news/world/ireland-to-increase-state-pension-f… | pmassetti | ||||
Over 75s make up over 15% of Japan's population for first time | japan | pensionpolicyinternational.com (19.09.2022) The share of Japan’s older adult population, those over age 65, has been increasing every year since 1950 and is expected to reach 35.3% of the total population in 2040. For the first time, Japan’s over 75s account for over 15% of the population, after… |
Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.pensionpolicyinternational.com/over-75s-make-up-over-15-of-japans-p… | pmassetti | |||||
Transparency, exclusion and mediation: how digital and biometric technologies are transforming social protection in Tamil Nadu, India | india | tandfonline.com (31.03.2021) What are the effects of biometric and digital technologies on social protection for the poor in India? Drawing on ethnographic research from rural Tamil Nadu, this paper presents evidence of how new technologies are experienced by beneficiaries of the Public… |
Information and communication technology | biometric | Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2021.1904866 | pmassetti | |||
Skills and employment: Big data offers new way to monitor changes in the demand and supply for skills | ilo.org (32.08.2022) A new study by the International Labour Organization finds that, with the right tools, data from online jobs platforms can provide important information about current and future demand and supply of skills in the labour market |
Employment | big data | Published_SS_Monitor, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_854616/lang--en/ind… | pmassetti | ||||
Poor families first: Challenges of the ‘stimulus checks’ in the United States’ | United States | ipcig.org (01.09.2022) Economic Impact Payments (EIPs)—commonly referred to as ‘stimulus checks’—were one of the key measures adopted by the US government to ease the crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. By May 2022, USD817 billion had been distributed to about 85 per cent of US… |
Cash transfers | Published_SS_Monitor_covid19, Published_SS_Monitor | https://ipcig.org/publication/31679?language_content_entity=en | pmassetti | ||||
Spain gives labor benefits to domestic cleaners, carers | spain | AP News (06.09.2022) The Spanish government on Tuesday passed a law giving hundreds of thousands of domestic cleaners and carers the right to unemployment benefits and other job protection measures for the first time. Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said the law would benefit more than 370,000… |
Published_SS_Monitor | https://apnews.com/article/discrimination-spain-european-union-0090b7fca02452ad… | pmassetti | |||||
Long-term care social protection models in the EU | european union | europa.eu (05.09.2022) The report examines long-term care systems for people aged 65 or above in the 27 EU Member States. It reveals that long-term care challenges have become increasingly salient in recent decades in EU Member States’ policy and political agendas. At the same time, in many… |
Published_SS_Monitor | https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&%3BlangId=en&%3BpubId=8503… | pmassetti | |||||
Europe: National monitoring frameworks for public social spending - An analysis of policies in 35 countries | european union | europa.eu The report explores how 35 European countries monitor social spending through dedicated national frameworks, and investigates the processes assessing the outcomes and effectiveness of public social spending. While these are fairly diverse, the report identifies two broad categories of… |
Social policies & programmes | Published_SS_Monitor | https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&%3BlangId=en&%3BpubId=8477… | pmassetti | ||||
France: Versement automatique des prestations sociales : des expérimentations prévues début 2023 | france | rtl.fr (02.09.2022) Le ministre des Solidarités, Jean-Christophe Combe, veut revoir le mode de versement de certaines prestations sociales car il trouve "anomal que 30% des personnes qui ont droit à des aides ne les réclament pas". |
Cash transfers | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.rtl.fr/actu/debats-societe/versement-automatique-des-prestations-so… | pmassetti |