NPR (14.06.2018) They are among the 92 countries where there is no national policy that allow dads to take paid time off work to care for their newborns.

Irish Times (20.06.2018) There will be “virtually no impact” from additional refugees on the workforce population in Ireland by December 2020, the latest International Migration Outlook report has found.

theguardian.com (15.06.2018) OECD report says it could take 150 years for a child from a poor UK family to earn national average

developmentpathways.co.uk (06.06.2018) For all its ambivalence, the IMF is a, if not the, key actor when it comes to social protection arrangements in low- and middle-income countries, writes Philip Alston.  In a new report he examine its approach to social protection and make a range of recommendations as to how it could do far better in this area.

Le Monde (21.06.2018) Les comptes publiés jeudi par la Drees classent la France parmi les pays les plus actifs dans la lutte contre la pauvreté.

 The New York Times (20.06.2018) The plan, which will most likely face significant opposition in Congress from Democrats and some Republicans, includes relocating many social safety net programs into a new megadepartment

Wire (19.06.2018) Technology-led disruptions are likely to make informality an enduring, if not accelerating, condition of Indian labour markets, requiring new and imaginative approaches to social protection.

lemonde.fr (31.05.2018) Le gouvernement a lancé jeudi sa « consultation citoyenne » sur ce projet particulièrement complexe et sensible. Tour d’horizon des enjeux de la réforme.

NZZ (19.06.2018) Am Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt läuft es rund. Die Arbeitslosigkeit ist derzeit so niedrig, wie seit fast zehn Jahren nicht mehr. Allein im ersten Quartal ist die Zahl der offenen Stellen um 17% gestiegen. Der Fachkräftemangel, der sich vor allem bei Ingenieur-, Management- und Technikerberufen zeigt, dürfte sich weiter akzentuieren. Angesichts der rückläufigen Einwanderung und der fortschreitenden demografischen Alterung rückt dabei wieder vermehrt das bestehende Arbeitskräftepotenzial in der Schweiz in den Vordergrund. Dieses ist allerdings kleiner als in zahlreichen anderen Ländern, weil hierzulande die Erwerbsbeteiligung im internationalen Vergleich hoch ist.

El Pais (19.06.2018) ¿Cuánto y cómo deben subir las pensiones en tiempos de crisis? ¿En las recesiones deben subir las mínimas con el IPC y las altas menos? La respuesta a estas dos preguntas divide al Pacto de Toledo. La semana pasada quedó claro que los precios deben ser el elemento "medular" en las revalorizaciones para que los pensionistas mantengan su poder adquistivo. Pero para esta semana quedó resolver la duda de qué pasaba si la economía entraba en problemas. Finalmente en la reunión de este martes no ha habido respuesta. Nadie se ha movido de dónde ya estaban. PP, Ciudadanos, PNV y PDECat sostienen que en estos momentos el IPC debe compartir protagonismo con la evolución del PIB y los salarios y que las prestaciones más altas "hagan sacrificios". PSOE y Unidos Podemos no aceptan la distinción.

lemonde.fr (28.05.2018) La ministre de la santé craint que la directive harmonisant le congé parental en Europe « éloigne les femmes du marché du travail ».

franceinter (20.06.2018) Ce mercredi, les ministres Gérald Darmanin et Mounir Mahjoubi lèvent le voile sur 17 projets imaginés pour améliorer la qualité de l'action publique grâce au numérique, qui feront l'objet de 200 millions d'euros d'investissements. Parmi eux, le recours à l'intelligence artificielle par Pôle Emploi.

IMF F&D Magazine  (June 2018) Digital platforms are recasting the relationships between customers, workers, and employers as the silicon chip’s reach permeates almost everything we do—from buying groceries online to finding a partner on a dating website. As computing power improves dramatically and more and more people around the world participate in the digital economy, we should think carefully about how to devise policies that will allow us to fully exploit the digital revolution’s benefits while minimizing job dislocation.

Health insurance fraud and its impact on the health care system Wherever it’s found, fraud and corruption cost more than just the money some get away with. Like a stone dropped into a pond, the effects of fraud and corruption in a health care system can send ripples outwards, nudging everything in its wake from costs and resources in the sector. As mentioned in our earlier article on insurance fraud, as well as in the trends discussion of our 2017 report on the Cost of International Health Insurance, the issues of corruption and fraudulent claims remains some of the biggest challenges the sector continues to face. This week, Pacific Prime discusses what health system insurance fraud looks like, and what it does to the sector.

In 2011, $2.27 trillion was spent on health care and more than four billion health insurance claims were processed in the United States. It is an undisputed reality that some of these health insurance claims are fraudulent. Although they constitute only a small fraction, those fraudulent claims carry a very high price tag. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that the financial losses due to health care fraud are in the tens of billions of dollars each year.

The most common types of fraud committed by dishonest providers include:

• Billing for services that were never rendered-either by using genuine patient information, sometimes obtained through identity theft, to fabricate entire claims or by padding claims with charges for procedures or services that did not take place.
• Billing for more expensive services or procedures than were actually provided or performed, commonly known as "upcoding"-i.e., falsely billing for a higher-priced treatment than was actually provided (which often requires the accompanying "inflation" of the patient's diagnosis code to a more serious condition consistent with the false procedure code).
• Performing medically unnecessary services solely for the purpose of generating insurance payments-seen very often in nerve-conduction and other diagnostic-testing schemes.
• Misrepresenting non-covered treatments as medically necessary covered treatments for purposes of obtaining insurance payments-widely seen in cosmetic-surgery schemes, in which non-covered cosmetic procedures such as "nose jobs" are billed to patients' insurers as deviated-septum repairs.
• Falsifying a patient's diagnosis to justify tests, surgeries or other procedures that aren't medically necessary.
• Unbundling - billing each step of a procedure as if it were a separate procedure.
• Billing a patient more than the co-pay amount for services that were prepaid or paid in full by the benefit plan under the terms of a managed care contract.
• Accepting kickbacks for patient referrals.
• Waiving patient co-pays or deductibles for medical or dental care and over-billing the insurance carrier or benefit plan (insurers often set the policy with regard to the waiver of co-pays through its provider contracting process; while, under Medicare, routinely waiving co-pays is prohibited and may only be waived due to "financial hardship").

The EHFCN Waste Typology Matrix enables to describe precisely the issues of mistakes, misuse, fraud and corruptions in Health  and the type of situation  (invoicing rule violated, needlessly expensive or unnecessary service).

The EWTM is a good basic document. Thanks to its analytical method and its nuanced definitions the communication will improve and the Inspection Services in charge of the struggle against waste, fraud and corruption in the Healthcare sector will be able to set better targeted aims. No doubt that it will be assessed and improved in the future but at least it exists and it contributes to the continuous improvement of the best practices guidelines for the Inspection Services.

SWI swissinfo (16.06.2018) One hundred years ago, the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA) was established. While the focus used to be occupational accidents and diseases, leisure accidents have become more common. =

The Journal (05.06.2018)  Regina Doherty has ruled out cutting child benefit for higher earners saying she believes in the universality of the payment.

Nippon (17.06.2018) One of the final sessions of the first Asian Impact Dialogue on Ageing and Demographic Change in Asia was the Road Map to the Future workshop. Kogiso Mari, director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, led attendees in reflecting on the key take-away lessons gained from the days of discussion in Singapore, with a focus on how elder care and future care forums can be improved.

HelpAge International (June 2018) Starting this week, more than half a million older women and men in Kenya are receiving their first ever pensions. Under the new Government-funded Inua Jamii 70 and Above universal social pension, launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday 2 June, all Kenyans over 70 will receive 2,000 shillings (just under US$20) per month.

Comparative Migration Studies   (June 2018) In Belgium, for instance, there are officially 21.084 Latin American registered. 60% of them are women. Colombians (around 5000) and Peruvians (around 2000) are among the most numerous groups and are also characterized by an over-representation of women (DGSIE, 2010), 2- MDW is the acronym for Migrant Domestic Worker; 3-The French word “Madame” used during the interview conducted in Spanish refers to her employer.

Le Monde (14.06.2018) Un amendement dans la loi Pénicaud 2 va créer des chartes et des droits pour améliorer la couverture sociale des personnes employées par des plates-formes numériques.

Ilo working paper (05.06.2018) Social protection programmes require processing significant data amounts, including often-sensitive information such as household assets, health status and physical or intellectual disabilities. Now more than ever, it is critical to address issues of privacy and data security in social protection programme design, implementation and evaluation.

RCF (13.06.2018) Treize départements français ancrés à gauche se sont portés volontaires pour expérimenter le revenu de base, une idée qui remonte à la précédente campagne pour la présidentielle.

Reuters (03.06.2018) Italy’s new anti-establishment government will change the labor reform introduced by the previous administration, Labour and Industry Minister Luigi di Maio said