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Social Protection fraud control steps save €500m
Irish Examiner (26.01.2016) The Department of Social Protection expects to have saved close to €500m through fraud control measures last year, while almost 600 people are before the courts on charges related to suspected welfare fraud.
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Low interest rates challenge EU pensions: watchdog
Reuters (26.01.2016) An extended period of low interest rates will create significant challenges to the resilience of EU defined benefit occupational pensions, the EU's insurance and pensions watchdog EIOPA said on Tuesday.
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Recognize risk differences for men and women in social protection policies
includeplatform.net (26.01.2016) Applying a gender lens to social protection policies is necessary to reduce inequality between men and women and make development more inclusive. This is the main message from a new paper by Julie Newton for INCLUDE, ‘Making Social Protection Gender Sensitive for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’.
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Simplifying and streamlining the yearly review process for Children’s Allowance and Supplementary Allowance
The Department of Social Security (DSS) in Malta falls under the responsibility of the Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity (MFSS). The DSS has continuously strived to find new ways to simplify and streamline its operations to offer a better service level to its customers.
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Weller system: A therapy management model for use by accident insurers
Over 270 million occupational accidents happen each year. These cause high costs and losses in work time. An active therapy management approach is therefore important The Weller system offers a comprehensive model for accident insurer case handlers. The Weller guide contains 170 principal diagnoses with over 450 diagnosis templates ordered by degree of seriousness. ? There are standard prognoses for the length of time a person will be unable to work for each injury type This takes account of the type of activity.
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www.safety-work.org: an international proposal for small enterprises and their partners
The web page "Safety and Work" (www.safety-work.org) - developed as part of the working programme for small and medium-sized enterprises of the ISSA’s Special Commission on Prevention - is currently operated and maintained by 21 international partners from seven different countries under the auspices of the BGN. It has been online since 2011 and is available in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. The partners involved are from non-commercial organisations such as, for example, statutory insurers, employer and employee organisations and welfare organisations.
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Innovative model of education for social security physicians
The Social Security Institution (ZUS) employs certifying physicians (1st instance) and physicians who are members of medical committees (2nd instance) who issue certificates stating incapacity for work in order to determine the right to social security benefits and who control the correctness of issued medical certifications of work incapacity. These physicians specialize in different fields of medicine as Poland has no specialization in medical certification and all postgraduate courses have no single curriculum.
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France: Jeunes - les propositions de l'Igas pour adapter leur protection sociale
Vie-publique (25.01.2016) Le rapport 2015 de l’Inspection générale des affaires sociales (Igas), remis en janvier 2016 au président de la République, au Parlement et au gouvernement, a pour thème la protection sociale des 11 millions de jeunes de 16 à 29 ans.
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Suisse: Santé - Nouveau combat pour faire baisser les prix des génériques
La Tribune de Genève (25.01.2016) Ces médicaments restent près de deux fois plus chers en Suisse qu’à l’étranger. Alain Berset veut agir.
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La France indemnise-t-elle mieux les chômeurs que ses voisins ?
Le Monde (20.01.2016) Lors de ses vœux « aux acteurs de l’entreprise et de l’emploi », lundi 18 janvier, au Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CESE), François Hollande a joué une nouvelle carte contre le chômage. Le président a présenté un plan massif de nouvelles formations pour 500 000 demandeurs d’emploi.
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The optimised economic benefit of rehabilitation
The economic benefit of rehabilitation was examined in a study. Improvements in fitness for work two years after an accident revealed an average net benefit of CHF 534,000 per case and an average cost-benefit ratio of 1:15.5. This means that one franc of rehabilitation costs yields 15.5 francs in pension benefit savings The effects of occupational rehabilitation measures was all the greater the earlier these were carried out. They were also greater in SUVA clinics than in non-SUVA clinics.
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[Interview] Health and safety at work: Priorities and gender challenges
EurActiv (22.01.2016) ETUI Senior Researcher Aida Ponce talks to ETUC Confederal Secretary Esther Lynch about the priorities and gender challenges that employees face at their workplace.
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Vietnam: Occupational diseases are weakening Ho Chi Minh City workforce
Thanh Nien Daily (21.01.2016) New data released by health officials in Ho Chi Minh City this week have once again laid bare the problem of poor working conditions in Vietnam and how they are debilitating the workforce.
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[Opinion] Americans Don't Get Universal Health Care, But They Might As Well Be Paying For It
Medical Daily (21.01.2016) The issue of universal health care has loomed over the U.S. for years. But with rising health care costs, the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as Obamacare ), and an increasingly tense presidential race, the debate is becoming inescapable. Despite the country’s ever-divided political stance, the fact is the U.S. is one of the only developed nations without a universal health care system. And while most of the population believes this is because health care is primarily privately funded, they’re wrong.
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Classes with ZUS
The project “Classes with ZUS” is addressed to secondary schools. It aims to raise awareness of young Poles on the role of social security in their lives.
The project presents: social solidarity principles, practical knowledge on the functioning of the system, obligations of employers towards ZUS, employer-friendly solutions - e-ZUS.
The project includes 4 lessons with the materials for teachers and for students (multimedia presentations, videos, exercises and texts to deepen the knowledge):
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Development of a microsimulation model to forecast the Social Insurance Fund spending and revenues
The Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) is by law obliged to prepare forecasts of the spending and revenues of the Social Insurance Fund (FUS) (i.e. the pension fund, the disability fund, the sickness fund and the work injury fund). A cohort model built to fulfil this requirement was sufficient to forecast aggregate spending and revenues, but, being based on average cohort values, it does not provide information on the benefits’ structure.
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France: Le Conseil constitutionnel limite l’accès au tiers payant
Le Monde (22.01.2016) Le conflit qui oppose depuis des mois une partie des médecins libéraux à la ministre de la santé, Marisol Touraine, pourrait bien se solder par un match nul. Saisi par les parlementaires d’opposition, le Conseil constitutionnel a invalidé, jeudi 21 janvier, une partie du dispositif du tiers payant généralisé, la mesure phare du projet de loi de santé qui prévoyait, d’ici à fin 2017, une dispense d’avance de frais intégrale pour les consultations chez un médecin généraliste ou un spécialiste.
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[Opinion] France: Quelle protection sociale à l'heure d'Uber?
latribune.fr (19.01.2016) "Ubérisation", économie "collaborative"... comment gérer la protection sociale demain ? Par François Charpentier
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[Opinión] Por qué los economistas se ocupan primero de la salud
El País /07.01.2016) La pregunta no es si la cobertura médica universal es valiosa, eso ya lo sabemos, sino cómo convertirla en realidad
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UK: NHS funding is falling behind European neighbours' average, research finds
The Guardian (21.01.2016) Britain’s spending on its health service is falling by international standards and, by 2020, will be £43bn less a year than the average spent by its European neighbours, according to research by the King’s Fund.
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EU: Ready for the Demographic Revolution? Measuring Active Ageing
Europa/News (14.01.2016) Across the EU, the number of older people is increasing – particularly fast, when it comes to people over 80 – and the number of young and working-age people is decreasing. Many regard this as a problem, particularly if they see older people as a burden.
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France: Des experts veulent une réforme "ambitieuse" de la protection sociale
Challenges.fr (20.01.2016) Le Conseil d'analyse économique (CAE), organisme rattaché au premier ministre, propose notamment de plafonner les dépenses de santé restant à la charge des patients.
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[Report] World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2016: Global unemployment projected to rise in both 2016 and 2017
ilo.org (19.01.2016) Continuing high rates of unemployment worldwide and chronic vulnerable employment in many emerging and developing economies are still deeply affecting the world of work, warns a new ILO report.
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200 millions de chômeurs dans le monde en 2016
Le Monde (19.01.2016) Chaque année, à l’occasion de la sortie de son rapport sur l’emploi dans le monde, l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT) alerte sur la gravité et la durée de la crise économique, et annonce de nouveaux chômeurs. En vain, la situation ne change guère. L’édition 2016, publiée mardi 19 janvier à Genève, prédit une augmentation d’environ 2,3 millions de sans-emploi en 2016, pour venir flirter à la fin de l’année avec le seuil des 200 millions de personnes (199,4 millions), soit 30 millions de plus qu’avant la crise en 2007.
TopicsUnemploymentInequalities