Social Protection Ministry wants to stop Guyanese living overseas from receiving Guyana old age pension

Submitted by monitor on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 15:06

News Source Guyana (05.07.2016) Minister Lawrence described it as ‘double dipping’ when persons not living in Guyana, access pension from both the Guyanese government and the country in which they live.

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US: Young Adults Can Face A Confusing Path To Health Insurance

Submitted by monitor on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 15:03

npr.org (05.07.2016) The Obama administration is making a push to get young adults covered on the health insurance marketplaces, both for their own good and that of the marketplaces. The insurance exchanges need healthy people to balance sicker ones in the risk pool. Despite beefed-up outreach planned for the coming months, several factors may throw a wrench into enrollment plans for young people.

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Latin America Must Continue to Make Progress Towards Universal Social Protection

Submitted by monitor on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 15:01

developmentpathways.co.uk (08.06.2016) In a recent ECLAC book titled “Towards universal social protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools”, edited together with Fernando Filgueira, Rodrigo Martínez and Cecilia Rossel, we show that, since the beginning of the 21st century, the region has been undergoing a vigorous transformation in its social protection policies, with a growing proportion of the population accessing plans which, themselves, are of higher quality and paying higher value transfers.

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Americas
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Extension of coverage

France: Maîtrise des dépenses de santé - l’Assurance maladie dresse sa feuille de route pour 2017

Submitted by monitor on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 09:14

Journal internatinal de médecine (30.06.2016) En pleine négociations conventionnelles, suspendues cette semaine en raison du coup d’éclat de la Confédération des syndicats médicaux français (CSMF), l’Assurance maladie dévoile ses pistes pour réaliser en 2017, 1,42 milliard d’euros d’économies, soit deux fois plus que l’objectif fixé pour 2016.

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Algérie: Caisse nationale de retraites : Davantage de communication

Submitted by monitor on Tue, 07/05/2016 - 15:01

elmoudjahid.com (04.07.2016) Le ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Sécurité sociale, Mohamed El Ghazi, a instruit les responsables de la Caisse nationale de retraites pour renforcer les moyens de communication et d’information au niveau local, en direction des retraités et des citoyens.

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algeria
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