To ensure adequacy and improve the quality of social security benefits the following actions have been taken:
 

1. Workers in the low income group, i.e. getting Rs. 137 per day (about $ 2.3 per day), have been exempted from paying contributions.
    
2. Long-term benefits being paid monthly to more than 2.5 lac dependent benefit and disablement benefit beneficiaries have been increased.
    
3. The amount available under other cash benefits like funeral benefit, or confinement allowance, etc. has also been enhanced.
    
4. Medical care facilities are available to retired persons and their spouses but widows of insured persons who died due to employment injury were not eligible. These benefits have now been extended to widows receiving monthly dependent benefits.
    
5. The medical care expenditure ceiling has been increased by 33% from 01.04.2014 to ensure State Governments have adequate funds to provide medical care.
    
6. Tertiary health care facilities, including diagnostic facilities at dispensary level, are being set up under Public Private Partnerships.
    
7. A tie-up arrangement has been made with over 1,100 private medical care institutions to extend the existing network.