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<h1>Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Africa, 2005</h1>
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<h1>Algeria</h1>
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<div class="exchangeRate">Exchange rate: US$1.00 equals 73.03 dinars.</div>
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<h2>Old Age, Disability, and Survivors</h2>
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<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">First law:</span> 1949.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current laws:</span> 1983, implemented in 1984, with 1996, 1997, and 1999 amendments; and 1994 (early pension).</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p>All persons employed under a labor contract, domestic workers, actors, and certain categories of fishermen and apprentices with earnings at least equal to half the legal minimum wage.</p>
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<p>Special systems for armed forces personnel and the self-employed.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> 7% of gross earnings (including 0.5% for the early pension).</p>
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<p>The above contributions finance old-age benefits only. Disability benefits, survivor benefits, and the death grant are financed under Sickness and Maternity, below.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 10% of gross payroll (including 0.5% for the early pension).</p>
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<p>The above contributions finance old-age benefits only. Disability benefits, survivor benefits, and the death grant are financed under Sickness and Maternity, below.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> None; the government subsidizes the minimum pension.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension:</span> Age 60 (men) or age 55 (women and veterans) with at least 15 years of coverage, including at least 7.5 years of contributions; regardless of age with 32 years of contributions. Retirement from work is necessary.</p>
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<p>Workers who do not have the required number of years of coverage at the normal retirement age can continue working for up to 5 years in order to satisfy the qualifying condition.</p>
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<p>Persons employed in arduous or unhealthy work can retire before the normal retirement age. The normal retirement age for insured women (age 55) who have raised at least one child for at least 9 years is reduced by a year for each child, up to a maximum of 3 years. The normal retirement age for disabled veterans (age 55) is reduced, according to the assessed degree of disability.</p>
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<p>There is no qualifying condition for age for the old-age pension for totally disabled workers who do not meet the disability pension qualifying conditions.</p>
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<p>Partial pension: Age 50 (men) or age 45 (women) with 20 years (men) or 15 years (women) of actual contributions.</p>
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<p>Early pension: Age 50 (men) or age 45 (women) with at least 20 years of employment, including 10 years of contributions of which 3 years were immediately before employment ceased. The insured must not receive income from any professional activity. The early pension is subject to the employer paying a lump-sum contribution, calculated according to the number of years that the insured retires before the normal retirement age.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Retirement settlement:</span> Age 60 or older with at least 5 years or 20 quarters of coverage and ineligible for the old-age pension.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Disability pension:</span> The total disability pension is payable for the loss of all working capacity. Must be currently covered with 60 days of employment in the last 12 months or 180 days in the last 3 years.</p>
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<p>Partial disability: A loss of at least 50% of earning capacity.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension:</span> The deceased was a pensioner or satisfied the qualifying conditions for a pension.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Death grant:</span> The deceased had 15 days (or 100 hours) of insured employment in the 3 months before death.</p>
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<p>Eligible survivors are a <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> of any age; children younger than age 18 (age 25 if an apprentice with earnings of no more than half the legal minimum wage, age 21 if a student, no limit if disabled or a daughter without income); and dependent parents with income less than the minimum old-age pension.</p>
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<p>All of the above benefits are payable abroad only if there is a reciprocal agreement.</p>
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<h3>Old-Age Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension:</span> The pension is equal to 2.5% of average monthly earnings in the 5 years before retirement or the best 5 years of the total professional career (whichever is higher) times the number of years of coverage, up to a maximum of 80%.</p>
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<p>For pension calculation purposes, each covered year or covered quarter is based on 180 days or 45 days of work, respectively. The pension is paid monthly.</p>
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<p>The minimum pension is equal to 75% (250% for veterans) of the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The maximum pension is 15 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>Dependent spouse supplement: 1,000 dinars.</p>
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<p>Constant-attendance supplement: Equal to 40% of the insured's pension. The minimum supplement is 2,470.34 dinars.</p>
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<p>Early pension: The pension is reduced by 1% for each year that the pension is awarded before the normal retirement age. The pension is increased every 12 months by 1% until the pensioner reaches the normal retirement age, when it is then recalculated according to the number of years the pension was awarded before the normal retirement age and the insured's total coverage period.</p>
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<p>The minimum early pension is 75% of the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>Dependent spouse supplement: Equal to 12.5% of the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 10,000 dinars.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Retirement settlement:</span> A lump sum equal to 2.5% of average monthly earnings in the 5 years before retirement or the best 5 years of the total professional career (whichever is higher) times the number of years of coverage.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually in May.</p>
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<h3>Permanent Disability Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Disability pension:</span> The pension is equal to 80% of average earnings during the last year or the best 3 years of the total professional career (whichever is higher). At the normal retirement age, the disability pension is replaced by an old-age pension of at least the same amount.</p>
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<p>Constant-attendance supplement: Equal to 40% of the pension.</p>
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<p>Partial disability: The pension is equal to 60% of average earnings during the last year or the best 3 years of the total professional career (whichever is higher).</p>
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<p>The minimum pension is equal to the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 10,000 dinars.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually in May.</p>
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<h3>Survivor Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension:</span> The <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> receives 75% of the old-age pension or disability pension (50% if there are other survivors) paid or accrued to the deceased. If there is more than one widow, the pension is split equally among them.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Other eligible survivors:</span> 30% of the old-age pension or disability pension paid or accrued to the deceased is payable for one other survivor; 40% is split equally if there is more than one other eligible survivor.</p>
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<p>If there is no surviving spouse, 45% of the old-age pension or disability pension paid or accrued to the deceased is payable to a full orphan and 30% is payable to a dependent parent.</p>
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<p>The total survivor pension must not exceed 90% of the pension paid or accrued to the deceased.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually in May.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Death grant:</span> A lump sum equal to 12 times the deceased's best monthly earnings in the year before death.</p>
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<p>The minimum death grant is 12 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 10,000 dinars.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Ministry of Labor and Social Security (http://www.mtss.gov.dz) provides general supervision.</p>
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<p>National Retirement Fund administers the old-age program for salaried employees.</p>
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<p>National Social Insurance Fund administers the disability and survivors program for salaried employees.</p>
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<p>National Social Security Fund for Nonwage Earners (http://www.casnos.com.dz) administers the old-age and disability program for nonwage earners.</p>
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<h2>Sickness and Maternity</h2>
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<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">First law:</span> 1949.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current law:</span> 1983, implemented in 1984.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Cash and medical benefits:</span> All employed persons.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits only:</span> Persons receiving an unemployment benefit, persons receiving the early pension, national liberation war pensioners, disabled persons with an assessed degree of disability of at least 50%, unemployed students, and their respective dependents; the dependents of certain categories of prisoner.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> 1.5% of gross earnings.</p>
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<p>The above contributions also finance disability benefits, survivor benefits, and the death grant under Old Age, Disability, and Survivors, above.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 12.5% of gross payroll.</p>
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<p>The above contributions also finance disability benefits, survivor benefits, and the death grant under Old Age, Disability, and Survivors, above.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> None.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Cash sickness benefits:</span> Must be in covered employment at the onset of incapacity. For up to 6 months' entitlement, the insured must have been employed for 15 days (or 100 hours) in the last quarter or 60 days (or 400 hours) in the last 12 months; for entitlement beyond 6 months, the insured must have been employed for 60 days (or 400 hours) in the last 12 months or 180 days in the last 3 years.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Cash maternity benefits:</span> Must have 15 days (or 100 hours) of insured employment in the last 3 months or 60 days (or 400 hours) in the last 12 months before the onset of pregnancy.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits:</span> Must have 15 days (or 100 hours) of insured employment in the 3 months before the year of the onset of the incapacity or 60 days (or 400 hours) of employment in the last 12 months.</p>
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<h3>Sickness and Maternity Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Sickness benefit:</span> The benefit is equal to 50% of daily earnings (100% for an extended illness or hospitalization) for the first 15 days; thereafter, 100% of daily earnings from the 16th day up to a maximum of 3 years; 4 years under certain circumstances.</p>
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<p>The minimum daily benefit (at the 100% rate) is eight times the legal hourly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal hourly minimum wage is 52.17 dinars.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Maternity benefit:</span> The benefit is equal to 100% of earnings. The benefit is payable for up to 14 weeks (including up to 6 weeks before the expected date of childbirth).</p>
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<p>The minimum daily benefit is eight times the legal hourly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal hourly minimum wage is 52.17 dinars.</p>
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<h3>Workers' Medical Benefits</h3>
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<p>Benefits include medical treatment, surgery, hospitalization, medicines, laboratory services, ophthalmology and optician services, some dental care including dental prostheses, functional and vocational rehabilitation, prostheses, thermal and specialized cures, and transportation.</p>
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<p>Full medical care in government hospitals is provided free and for unlimited duration for certain categories of sickness; some categories may require cost sharing.</p>
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<p>Cost sharing: A cash refund of 80% of medical expenses (100% for insured persons with chronic diseases, work injury beneficiaries assessed as more than 50% disabled, and old-age pensioners or disability pensioners with income less than the legal minimum wage).</p>
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<p>Maternity benefits are reimbursed at 100%; hospital charges are limited to 8 days.</p>
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<h3>Dependents' Medical Benefits</h3>
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<p>Benefits include medical treatment, surgery, hospitalization, medicines, laboratory services, ophthalmology and optician services, some dental care including dental prostheses, functional and vocational rehabilitation, prostheses, thermal and specialized cures, and transportation.</p>
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<p>Full medical care in government hospitals is provided free and for unlimited duration for certain categories of sickness; some categories may require cost sharing.</p>
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<p>Cost sharing: A cash refund of 80% of medical expenses (100% for insured persons with chronic diseases, work injury beneficiaries assessed as more than 50% disabled, and old-age pensioners or disability pensioners with income less than the legal minimum wage).</p>
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<p>Maternity benefits are reimbursed at 100%; hospital charges are limited to 8 days.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Ministry of Labor and Social Security (http://www.mtss.gov.dz) provides general supervision.</p>
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<p>National Social Insurance Fund administers the disability and survivors program for salaried employees.</p>
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<p>National Social Security Fund for Nonwage Earners (http://www.casnos.com.dz) administers the old-age and disability program for nonwage earners.</p>
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<h2>Work Injury</h2>
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<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">First law:</span> 1919.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current law:</span> 1983, implemented in 1984.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p>All employed persons, apprentices, students in technical schools and trainees, persons undergoing medical or vocational rehabilitation, some kinds of voluntary worker, wards of juvenile courts, students, and convicted persons working in prison workshops.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> None; work injury pensioners whose permanent disability pension is more than the legal minimum wage contribute 2% of the pension.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 1% of gross payroll.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> None.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Work injury benefits:</span> There is no minimum qualifying period. Accidents that occur while commuting to and from work are covered.</p>
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<h3>Temporary Disability Benefits</h3>
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<p>The benefit is equal to 100% of net daily earnings. The benefit is payable from the day after the onset of disability until full recovery or the certification of permanent disability.</p>
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<p>The minimum daily benefit is 8 times the legal minimum hourly wage.</p>
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<p>The legal minimum hourly wage is 52.17 dinars.</p>
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<h3>Permanent Disability Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Permanent disability pension:</span> The pension is equal to average earnings during the last 12 months times the assessed degree of disability.</p>
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<p>A lump sum is paid if the assessed degree of disability is less than 10%.</p>
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<p>The annual earnings for pension calculation purposes must not be less than 2,300 times the legal minimum hourly wage.</p>
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<p>The legal minimum hourly wage is 52.17 dinars.</p>
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<p>Constant-attendance supplement: Equal to 40% of the pension.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Foreign worker settlement:</span> A lump sum equal to three times the annual pension is payable to injured foreign workers who leave the country, unless there is a reciprocal agreement.</p>
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<h3>Workers' Medical Benefits</h3>
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<p>Benefits include medical treatment, surgery, hospitalization, medicines, laboratory services, ophthalmology and optician services, some dental care, prostheses, functional and vocational rehabilitation, thermal and specialized cures, and transportation.</p>
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<p>There is no limit to duration.</p>
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<h3>Survivor Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension:</span> The widow receives 75% (50% if there are other survivors) of the deceased's average earnings in the 12 months before the date of the accident resulting in the insured's death. If there is more than one widow, the pension is split equally among them.</p>
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<p>Eligible survivors are a widow of any age; children younger than age 18 (age 25 if an apprentice with earnings of no more than half the legal minimum wage, age 21 if a student, no limit if disabled or a daughter without income); and dependent parents with income less than the minimum old-age pension.</p>
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<p>Survivors of foreign workers are eligible for benefits if they are resident or are covered by a reciprocal agreement.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Other eligible survivors:</span> 30% of the deceased's average earnings are payable for one survivor; 40% is split equally if there is more than one eligible survivor.</p>
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<p>If there is no surviving spouse, 45% of the deceased's average earnings are payable to a full orphan and 30% to a dependent parent.</p>
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<p>The total survivor pension must not exceed 90% of the deceased's average earnings.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Death grant:</span> A lump sum equal to 12 times the deceased's best monthly earnings in the year before death.</p>
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<p>The minimum death grant is 12 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 10,000 dinars.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Ministry of Labor and Social Security (http://www.mtss.gov.dz) provides general supervision.</p>
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<p>National Social Insurance Fund administers the disability and survivors program for salaried employees.</p>
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<h2>Unemployment</h2>
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<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">First and current law:</span> 1994.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p>Involuntarily unemployed salaried workers.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> 0.5% of gross earnings; contributions are paid on unemployment benefits.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 1.5% of gross payroll plus a lump-sum contribution equal to 80% of each laid-off worker's average monthly earnings in the last year for each year of employment (up to a maximum of 12 years), if the employee worked for the employer for more than 3 years.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> None.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Unemployment benefit:</span> The insured is involuntarily unemployed; must have at least 3 years of contributions, including the 6 months before unemployment; must not receive income from any professional activity; must have been looking for work for at least 3 months; and must be a resident of Algeria. The previous employer must have paid all required social security contributions.</p>
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<h3>Unemployment Benefits</h3>
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<p>The benefit is calculated according to a reference salary that is equal to 50% of the sum of the insured's average monthly salary during the last 12 months and the monthly legal minimum wage (1,000 dinars). The benefit is payable for 2 months for each year of contributions, up to a maximum of 36 months.</p>
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<p>The minimum duration of benefit entitlement is 12 months.</p>
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<p>The total duration of benefit entitlement is split into four equal periods, and the benefit payable declines over the four periods. The monthly benefit is equal to 100% of the reference salary during the first period, 80% during the second period, 60% during the third period, and 50% during the fourth period.</p>
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<p>The minimum monthly benefit is 70% of the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The maximum monthly benefit is three times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
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<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 10,000 dinars.</p>
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<p>Nonworking spouse supplement: 500 dinars a month, if the insured receives an unemployment benefit of less than 7,000 dinars a month.</p>
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<p>Unemployment beneficiaries and their dependents are eligible for sickness, maternity, and family benefits (entitlement may continue for up to 12 months after the unemployment benefit ceases). Periods during which the unemployment benefit has been paid are credited for pension calculation purposes.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Ministry of Labor and Social Security (http://www.mtss.gov.dz) provides general supervision.</p>
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<p>National Unemployment Insurance Fund administers the program.</p>
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<h2>Family Allowances</h2>
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<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">First and current law:</span> 1941, with 1994 amendment.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Employment-related system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p>Nonagricultural employees and social insurance beneficiaries.</p>
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<p>Special systems for public-sector employees and employees of certain agricultural cooperatives.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> None.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 25% of the cost of family allowances for employees.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> 75% of the cost of family allowances for employees; the total cost of family allowances for social insurance beneficiaries.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Family benefits:</span> The child must be younger than age 17 (age 18 if an apprentice, age 21 if a student or disabled). The insured must earn at least half the legal monthly minimum wage; be disabled or ill; or be receiving an unemployment benefit, early retirement benefit, or old-age pension.</p>
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<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 10,000 dinars.</p>
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<h3>Family Allowance Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Family allowances:</span> If family earnings are 15,000 dinars a month or less, the benefit is 600 dinars a month for each of the first five children and 300 dinars for each additional child. If family earnings exceed 15,000 dinars a month, the benefit is 300 dinars a month for each child.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">School allowance:</span> Payable for children older than age 6. If family earnings are 15,000 dinars a month or less, the benefit is 800 dinars for each of the first five children and 400 dinars for each additional child. If family earnings exceed 15,000 dinars a month, the benefit is 400 dinars for each child. The school allowance is payable once a year in addition to family allowances.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Ministry of Labor and Social Security (http://www.mtss.gov.dz) provides general supervision.</p>
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<p>National Social Insurance Fund administers the program.</p>
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