The National Social Security Fund for Non-Salaried Workers (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale des non-salariés – CASNOS) oversees the compulsory coverage of social insurance and retirement benefit risks of independent farm and non-farm workers operating in Algeria. It manages the collection of compulsory contributions.

The farming industry experienced difficult times in the 1990s, during which farmers were unable to pay their contributions, resulting in the loss of all benefits for themselves and their dependants. 

To provide assistance to farmers, CASNOS proposed debt rehabilitation measures for such arrears of payments.

The measure aims to establish a contributions payment schedule and maintain farmers’ social security coverage. Payment deadlines for contributions were extended until the end of September, after the summer harvests, instead of the end of April, as was the case before 2016.

In this way, farmers nearing retirement were able to pay in constant dinars the arrears in their contributions and to extend social security coverage to family caregivers through new agreements.