221 lines
No EOL
28 KiB
HTML
221 lines
No EOL
28 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html>
|
|
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
|
|
<head>
|
|
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
|
|
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" />
|
|
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
|
|
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
|
|
<title>Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 - Dominican Republic</title>
|
|
<meta name="DCTERMS:dateCreated" content="2012-02" />
|
|
<meta name="DCTERMS:contentOffice" content="ORDP:ORES" />
|
|
<meta name="DCTERMS:contentOwner" content="publications@ssa.gov" />
|
|
<meta name="DCTERMS:coderOffice" content="ORDP:ORES:OD" />
|
|
<meta name="DCTERMS:coder" content="op.webmaster@ssa.gov" />
|
|
<meta name="DCTERMS:dateCertified" content="2025-01-01" />
|
|
<meta name="description" content="Social Security Administration Research, Statistics, and Policy Analysis" />
|
|
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Social Security Administration Research, Statistics, and Policy Analysis"/>
|
|
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/policy/styles/doc.css" />
|
|
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/policy/styles/global.css" />
|
|
<!-- SSA INTERNET HEAD SCRIPTS -->
|
|
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-/JqT3SQfawRcv/BIHPThkBvs0OEvtFFmqPF/lYI/Cxo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
|
|
<script src="/framework/js/ssa.internet.head.js"></script>
|
|
|
|
<script>(window.BOOMR_mq=window.BOOMR_mq||[]).push(["addVar",{"rua.upush":"false","rua.cpush":"false","rua.upre":"false","rua.cpre":"false","rua.uprl":"false","rua.cprl":"false","rua.cprf":"false","rua.trans":"SJ-3a3bb884-f513-47e3-a86c-84bab05e21dc","rua.cook":"true","rua.ims":"false","rua.ufprl":"false","rua.cfprl":"false","rua.isuxp":"false","rua.texp":"norulematch","rua.ceh":"false","rua.ueh":"false","rua.ieh.st":"0"}]);</script>
|
|
<script>!function(e){var n="https://s.go-mpulse.net/boomerang/";if("False"=="True")e.BOOMR_config=e.BOOMR_config||{},e.BOOMR_config.PageParams=e.BOOMR_config.PageParams||{},e.BOOMR_config.PageParams.pci=!0,n="https://s2.go-mpulse.net/boomerang/";if(window.BOOMR_API_key="LERZW-HECFS-R8H4E-23UQ7-ERMQB",function(){function e(){if(!o){var e=document.createElement("script");e.id="boomr-scr-as",e.src=window.BOOMR.url,e.async=!0,i.parentNode.appendChild(e),o=!0}}function t(e){o=!0;var n,t,a,r,d=document,O=window;if(window.BOOMR.snippetMethod=e?"if":"i",t=function(e,n){var t=d.createElement("script");t.id=n||"boomr-if-as",t.src=window.BOOMR.url,BOOMR_lstart=(new Date).getTime(),e=e||d.body,e.appendChild(t)},!window.addEventListener&&window.attachEvent&&navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE [67]\./))return window.BOOMR.snippetMethod="s",void t(i.parentNode,"boomr-async");a=document.createElement("IFRAME"),a.src="about:blank",a.title="",a.role="presentation",a.loading="eager",r=(a.frameElement||a).style,r.width=0,r.height=0,r.border=0,r.display="none",i.parentNode.appendChild(a);try{O=a.contentWindow,d=O.document.open()}catch(_){n=document.domain,a.src="javascript:var d=document.open();d.domain='"+n+"';void(0);",O=a.contentWindow,d=O.document.open()}if(n)d._boomrl=function(){this.domain=n,t()},d.write("<bo"+"dy onload='document._boomrl();'>");else if(O._boomrl=function(){t()},O.addEventListener)O.addEventListener("load",O._boomrl,!1);else if(O.attachEvent)O.attachEvent("onload",O._boomrl);d.close()}function a(e){window.BOOMR_onload=e&&e.timeStamp||(new Date).getTime()}if(!window.BOOMR||!window.BOOMR.version&&!window.BOOMR.snippetExecuted){window.BOOMR=window.BOOMR||{},window.BOOMR.snippetStart=(new Date).getTime(),window.BOOMR.snippetExecuted=!0,window.BOOMR.snippetVersion=12,window.BOOMR.url=n+"LERZW-HECFS-R8H4E-23UQ7-ERMQB";var i=document.currentScript||document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0],o=!1,r=document.createElement("link");if(r.relList&&"function"==typeof r.relList.supports&&r.relList.supports("preload")&&"as"in r)window.BOOMR.snippetMethod="p",r.href=window.BOOMR.url,r.rel="preload",r.as="script",r.addEventListener("load",e),r.addEventListener("error",function(){t(!0)}),setTimeout(function(){if(!o)t(!0)},3e3),BOOMR_lstart=(new Date).getTime(),i.parentNode.appendChild(r);else t(!1);if(window.addEventListener)window.addEventListener("load",a,!1);else if(window.attachEvent)window.attachEvent("onload",a)}}(),"".length>0)if(e&&"performance"in e&&e.performance&&"function"==typeof e.performance.setResourceTimingBufferSize)e.performance.setResourceTimingBufferSize();!function(){if(BOOMR=e.BOOMR||{},BOOMR.plugins=BOOMR.plugins||{},!BOOMR.plugins.AK){var n="false"=="true"?1:0,t="cookiepresent",a="eyd7g6aaiaaamjqacqdfqaaaabt3mouh-f-8f8507f7e-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net",i="false"=="true"?2:1,o={"ak.v":"39","ak.cp":"1204614","ak.ai":parseInt("728289",10),"ak.ol":"0","ak.cr":3,"ak.ipv":6,"ak.proto":"h2","ak.rid":"14c91494","ak.r":19138,"ak.a2":n,"ak.m":"dsca","ak.n":"essl","ak.bpcip":"2607:f378:40:6::","ak.cport":40596,"ak.gh":"23.60.168.62","ak.quicv":"","ak.tlsv":"tls1.3","ak.0rtt":"","ak.0rtt.ed":"","ak.csrc":"-","ak.acc":"","ak.t":"1739995783","ak.ak":"hOBiQwZUYzCg5VSAfCLimQ==pznccz5mzu5lY73Bzd3KDw5FV0Em2RQug6Dms4r3bo6Lmg1cb976+VCshuU6soyqFCiIuLgCiGgrbnQJSk4fkcl3Ns2RcX1zae4sXQPHGRvvhEtqu4UMtMra6GTL9i8T5prCRtwkDm9N5Tl51MuIPXFEwUYNE3yYmzohjnmfpvAodz81havIiQsPLbvC19AuzDFSCNQbsJzxGZgEmiJnOrjr7eJfC0sVnMSyNC4iPdZT4snC+8NZrAxCfDaP78eMEEliUiYfRvqae8XP9Wajxxw0SCFnu+Ke0ErdoPm6bcDNqPrN3xyxpnv0jGGDAeOlr7cn11rcmezR96Px7ViIL33fvFq5HJ8fGfFh+FZ08yDchG/Ku0FlIa8u6V/j8VuHUTElRjpxLHCutXOWZmP3QISXgpAS5Mx3CPZ+q70VT+I=","ak.pv":"98","ak.dpoabenc":"","ak.tf":i};if(""!==t)o["ak.ruds"]=t;var r={i:!1,av:function(n){var t="http.initiator";if(n&&(!n[t]||"spa_hard"===n[t]))o["ak.feo"]=void 0!==e.aFeoApplied?1:0,BOOMR.addVar(o)},rv:function(){var e=["ak.bpcip","ak.cport","ak.cr","ak.csrc","ak.gh","ak.ipv","ak.m","ak.n","ak.ol","ak.proto","ak.quicv","ak.tlsv","ak.0rtt","ak.0rtt.ed","ak.r","ak.acc","ak.t","ak.tf"];BOOMR.removeVar(e)}};BOOMR.plugins.AK={akVars:o,akDNSPreFetchDomain:a,init:function(){if(!r.i){var e=BOOMR.subscribe;e("before_beacon",r.av,null,null),e("onbeacon",r.rv,null,null),r.i=!0}return this},is_complete:function(){return!0}}}}()}(window);</script></head>
|
|
|
|
<body class="ssptw">
|
|
<article>
|
|
<header>
|
|
<div id="hLogo"><a class="navLogo" href="/policy/index.html">Social Security</a><a class="navSearch" href="https://search.ssa.gov/search?affiliate=ssa">SEARCH</a></div>
|
|
<div id="hRedBar">
|
|
<div id="hDocInfo">
|
|
<h1>Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011</h1>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</header>
|
|
<nav>
|
|
<div id="breadcrumbs" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">You are here: <span itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"><a href="/" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">Social Security Administration</span></a><meta itemprop="position" content="1" /></span> > <span itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"><a href="/policy/index.html" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">Research, Statistics & Policy Analysis</span></a><meta itemprop="position" content="2" /></span> > <span itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"><a href="index.html" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011</span></a><meta itemprop="position" content="3" /></span></div>
|
|
<div id="rspaUtil"><ul><li id="mail"><a class="js-ga-event" href="#" rel="nofollow" data-event="outbound-link" data-event-action="click" data-event-label="email-this">Email</a></li><li id="print"><a href="#" rel="nofollow">Save/Print</a></li></ul></div>
|
|
</nav>
|
|
<div class="innards">
|
|
<h1>Dominican Republic</h1>
|
|
<div class="exchangeRate">Exchange rate: <abbr class="spell">US</abbr>$1.00 = 37.95 pesos.</div>
|
|
<h2>Old Age, Disability, and Survivors</h2>
|
|
<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">First law:</span> 1947.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Current laws:</span> 2001 (social security), implemented in 2003; 2005 (contribution exemptions); 2007 (financing and investments); and 2009 (financing).</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Mandatory individual account and social assistance system.</p>
|
|
<p>Note: Subsidized individual accounts for self-employed persons have not yet been implemented.</p>
|
|
<p>The <span class="nobr">pay-as-you-go</span> social insurance system, which is being phased out, covers pensioners who began receiving their pension before June 2003 and public-sector employees who opt not to join the individual account system.</p>
|
|
<h3>Coverage</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Mandatory individual account:</span> All private-sector workers and employers. Voluntary coverage for Dominican citizens living abroad, public-sector workers, and private-sector workers older than age 45 in 2003.</p>
|
|
<p>Exclusions: Self-employed persons.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance:</span> Severely disabled, needy, unemployed, and self-employed persons with income below the legal minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage for private-sector workers ranges from 6,035 pesos to 9,905 pesos, depending on the type and size of business; the legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers is 5,117.50 pesos.</p>
|
|
<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Insured person</span></p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Mandatory individual account:</span> 2.87% of covered earnings.</p>
|
|
<p>Of the total insured person and employer contributions (9.97%), 8.0% is directed to the individual account, 1% pays for disability and survivor insurance, 0.5% pays for pension fund management companies' administrative fees, and 0.07% contributes to the Superintendent of Pensions' operating costs.</p>
|
|
<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are the legal minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The maximum earnings used to calculate contributions are 20 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 7,583 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> None.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person</span></p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Mandatory individual account:</span> Not applicable.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> None.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Employer</span></p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Mandatory individual account:</span> 7.10% of covered payroll.</p>
|
|
<p>Of the total insured person and employer contributions (9.97%), 8.0% is directed to the individual account, 1% pays for disability and survivor insurance, 0.5% pays for pension fund management companies' administrative fees, and 0.07% contributes to the Superintendent of Pensions' operating costs.</p>
|
|
<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are the legal minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The maximum earnings used to calculate contributions are 20 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 7,583 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> None.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Government</span></p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Mandatory individual account:</span> Finances the guaranteed minimum pension; partially finances the subsidized mandatory individual accounts; and finances the value of accrued rights for those who made contributions under the social insurance system.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> The total cost.</p>
|
|
<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension (mandatory individual account):</span> Age 60 with at least 30 years of contributions.</p>
|
|
<p>Pensioners are required to cease gainful activity.</p>
|
|
<p>Early pension: Age 55 if the individual account balance is sufficient to finance a pension equal to the minimum pension; aged 57 to 59, unemployed, and with at least 25 years of contributions; with less than 25 years, the insured can receive a pension based on the accumulated funds or continue contributing to reach 25 years.</p>
|
|
<p>Guaranteed minimum pension (Solidarity Fund): Age 60 with at least 30 years of contributions and insufficient accumulated capital plus accrued interest in the individual account to finance the minimum pension set by law.</p>
|
|
<p>The minimum <span class="nobr">old-age</span> pension is the lowest legal monthly minimum wage for private-sector workers.</p>
|
|
<p>The lowest monthly minimum wage for private-sector workers is 6,035 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p>The pension is not payable abroad.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance <span class="nobr">old-age</span> pension (income-tested):</span> Age 60 and needy.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Disability pension (mandatory individual account):</span> The insured has a chronic illness or injury (nonwork- or work-related) and has exhausted sickness benefits or work injury benefits. A total disability is defined as a loss of at least 66.7% of earning capacity; a partial disability, as loss of earning capacity of greater than 50% but less than 66.7%.</p>
|
|
<p>A regional medical committee assesses the degree of disability. The national medical committee may revise, validate, or reject the decision of a regional medical committee.</p>
|
|
<p>The pension is not payable abroad.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance disability pension (income-tested):</span> Paid at any age if assessed as severely disabled and needy.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension (mandatory individual account):</span> The deceased was insured or a pensioner at the time of death.</p>
|
|
<p>Eligible survivors are a <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> or partner and unmarried children younger than age 18 (age 21 if a <span class="nobr">full-time</span> student, no limit if disabled).</p>
|
|
<p>The pension is not payable abroad.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance survivor pension (income-tested):</span> Paid to needy survivors.</p>
|
|
<p>Eligible survivors are a <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> or partner and unmarried children younger than age 18 (age 21 if a <span class="nobr">full-time</span> student, no limit if disabled).</p>
|
|
<h3>Old-Age Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension (mandatory individual account):</span> The pension is based on the value of the accumulated capital plus accrued interest, which can be used to purchase a price-indexed annuity or to make programmed withdrawals. (The value of accrued rights under the social insurance system is combined with the individual account balance at retirement.)</p>
|
|
<p>Early pension: The maximum early pension is the insured's final salary.</p>
|
|
<p>The minimum <span class="nobr">old-age</span> pension is the lowest legal minimum wage for all groups of workers.</p>
|
|
<p>The lowest legal minimum wage for private-sector workers is 6,035 pesos; the legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers is 5,117.50 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to changes in the minimum public-sector legal minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance <span class="nobr">old-age</span> pension:</span> 60% of the legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers (plus a Christmas bonus) is paid.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers is 5,117.50 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to changes in the consumer price index.</p>
|
|
<h3>Permanent Disability Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Disability pension:</span> For a total disability, the pension is 60% of the insured's indexed average earnings in the three years immediately before the disability began. The disability pension is financed by disability insurance until retirement or death. The insurance company also pays a monthly contribution to the insured person's individual account until retirement or death. The disability pension ceases at the normal pensionable age when the insured may access the individual account balance to purchase a price-indexed annuity or make programmed withdrawals.</p>
|
|
<p>Partial disability: 30% of the insured's indexed average earnings in the three years immediately before the disability began is paid.</p>
|
|
<p>There is no minimum or maximum disability pension.</p>
|
|
<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to changes in the consumer price index.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance disability pension:</span> 60% of the legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers (plus a Christmas bonus) is paid.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers is 5,117.50 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to changes in the consumer price index.</p>
|
|
<h3>Survivor Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension:</span> 60% of the deceased's indexed average earnings in the previous three years is paid. (Life insurance tops up the accumulated capital in the deceased's individual account if the balance is less than the required minimum to finance the survivor pension.)</p>
|
|
<p>A spouse older than age 55 receives the pension for life; a spouse aged 50 to 55 receives a pension for six years (five years if younger than age 50).</p>
|
|
<p>If there are orphans younger than age 18 (up to age 21 if a <span class="nobr">full-time</span> student, no limit if disabled), the pension is split between the spouse and the orphans.</p>
|
|
<p>There is no minimum or maximum survivor pension.</p>
|
|
<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to changes in the consumer price index.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Social assistance survivor pension:</span> 60% of the legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers (plus a Christmas bonus) is paid.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage for public-sector workers is 5,117.5 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted according to changes in the consumer price index.</p>
|
|
<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
|
|
<p>National Social Security Board (<a href="https://www.cnss.gob.do">http://www.cnss.gob.do</a>) provides overall governance of the social security system.</p>
|
|
<p>Superintendent of Pensions (http://www.sipen.gov.do) provides general supervision and fiscal control.</p>
|
|
<p>Individual pension fund management companies administer the individual accounts and contract with insurance companies for disability and survivors insurance.</p>
|
|
<h2>Sickness and Maternity</h2>
|
|
<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">First law:</span> 1947.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Current laws:</span> 1948 (social insurance), implemented in 1949; and 2001 (social security), implemented in 2007.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance (cash benefits) and universal (medical benefits) system.</p>
|
|
<p>Note: A system of subsidized cash and medical benefits for self-employed persons and their dependents has not yet been implemented.</p>
|
|
<h3>Coverage</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Cash and medical benefits:</span> Employed persons and their spouses or partners, the insured's children up to age 21 if a <span class="nobr">full-time</span> student (no limit if disabled), and pensioners. Children older than age 21 and parents who are economically dependent on the insured may be covered under certain conditions.</p>
|
|
<p>Exclusions: Self-employed persons.</p>
|
|
<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> 3.04% of covered earnings.</p>
|
|
<p>There are no minimum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
|
|
<p>The maximum earnings used to calculate contributions are 10 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 7,583 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 7.09% of covered payroll.</p>
|
|
<p>There are no minimum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
|
|
<p>The maximum earnings used to calculate contributions are 10 times the legal monthly minimum wage.</p>
|
|
<p>The legal monthly minimum wage is 7,583 pesos.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> The total cost of social assistance and part of the cost for the subsidized program.</p>
|
|
<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Cash sickness benefits:</span> The insured must have at least 12 months of contributions or be a pensioner.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Cash maternity benefits:</span> The insured must have at least eight months of contributions in the 12 months before childbirth or have been without paid work in the 12 months before childbirth.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits:</span> Citizens and residents of the Dominican Republic.</p>
|
|
<h3>Sickness and Maternity Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Sickness benefit:</span> 60% of earnings in the last six months (40% if hospitalized) is paid after a three-day waiting period, for up to 26 weeks.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Maternity benefit:</span> The total benefit is three months of the insured's earnings and is paid for six weeks before and six weeks after the expected date of childbirth.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Nursing allowance:</span> If the insured's salary is less than three times the minimum national wage, an allowance is paid for up to 12 months after the child's birth.</p>
|
|
<h3>Workers' Medical Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits (basic health plan):</span> Benefits include preventive, inpatient and outpatient, maternity, pediatric, emergency, surgery and specialist care; medicine; and prostheses for persons with disabilities, according to a schedule in law.</p>
|
|
<p>Cost sharing: The insured is reimbursed for 70% of the cost of some medicines up to 3,000 pesos per year.</p>
|
|
<p>Social assistance beneficiaries receive basic medicines free of charge.</p>
|
|
<h3>Dependents' Medical Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits for dependents (basic health plan):</span> Medical benefits for dependents are the same as those for the insured.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits for dependents (pediatric health care):</span> Provided from the 45th day after birth until age 5. Benefits include nutrition, pediatric care, and child development programs.</p>
|
|
<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
|
|
<p>National Health Insurance (http://www.arssenasa.gov.do) and Health Risk Management Companies administer the basic health plan.</p>
|
|
<p>Health Risk Management Companies may be private, public, or mixed entities.</p>
|
|
<p>Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (http://www.sisalril.gov.do) supervises the National Health Insurance and Health Risk Management Companies.</p>
|
|
<p>Dominican Social Insurances Institute administers the pediatric health care program under the supervision of the National Council of Children Establishments.</p>
|
|
<h2>Work Injury</h2>
|
|
<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">First law:</span> 1932.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Current law:</span> 2001 (social security), implemented in 2003.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance system.</p>
|
|
<h3>Coverage</h3>
|
|
<p>All insured workers.</p>
|
|
<p>Exceptions: Self-employed persons.</p>
|
|
<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> None.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> Not applicable.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> The total cost is met through contributions that vary according to the assessed degree of risk. The average contribution is 1.2% of covered payroll.</p>
|
|
<p>There are no minimum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
|
|
<p>The maximum earnings used to calculate contributions are four times the minimum average national wage.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> None; contributes as an employer.</p>
|
|
<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Work injury benefits:</span> There is no minimum qualifying period.</p>
|
|
<h3>Temporary Disability Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p>The labor code requires that cash benefits be provided for temporary disability.</p>
|
|
<h3>Permanent Disability Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Permanent disability pension:</span> Benefits are provided according to four degrees of assessed disability: severe total disability (totally disabled and in need of constant attendance); permanent total disability (unable to perform any occupation); permanent total disability for usual occupation (unable to perform usual occupation); and permanent partial disability for current occupation (the loss of at least 50% of earning capacity).</p>
|
|
<p>All benefits are calculated using the base salary. The base salary is the insured's average covered earnings in the six months before the injury occurred or occupational disease began. For insured workers with less than six months of covered earnings, the base salary is 50% of total covered earnings.</p>
|
|
<p>For an assessed degree of disability of 100% (severe total disability), 100% of the base salary is paid. For an assessed degree of disability of at least 67% (permanent total disability), 70% of the base salary is paid. For an assessed degree of disability of 50% to 66% (permanent total disability for usual occupation), 50% of the base salary is paid. For an assessed degree of disability of 15% to 49% (permanent partial disability for current occupation), a lump sum of five to 10 times the base salary is paid.</p>
|
|
<h3>Workers' Medical Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p>Medical benefits are the same as provided under the basic health plan. Benefits include preventive, inpatient and outpatient, pediatric, emergency, surgery and specialist care; medicine; and prostheses for persons with disabilities, according to a schedule in law.</p>
|
|
<h3>Survivor Benefits</h3>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension:</span> 50% of the deceased's pension is paid to a <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> aged 45 or older or disabled.</p>
|
|
<p>The pension ceases on remarriage and a lump sum of two years of pension is paid.</p>
|
|
<p>A lump sum of two years of pension is paid to a <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> younger than age 45.</p>
|
|
<p><span class="h4">Orphan's pension:</span> 20% of the deceased's pension is paid to each orphan younger than age 18 (age 21 if a <span class="nobr">full-time</span> student, no limit if disabled).</p>
|
|
<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
|
|
<p>Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (http://www.sisalril.gov.do) supervises and monitors the work injury program.</p>
|
|
<h2>Family Allowances</h2>
|
|
<h3>Regulatory Framework</h3>
|
|
<p>Benefits are paid to unemployed single mothers with unmarried children younger than age 18 (age 21 if a <span class="nobr">full-time</span> student, no limit if disabled) who lack sufficient resources to meet basic needs. (Social assistance benefits are provided under the Old Age, Disability, and Survivors program).</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</article>
|
|
<nav>
|
|
<div class="docNav"><a class="previous" href="dominica.html">Previous: Dominica</a> <a class="toTop" href="#hLogo">Top of page</a> <a class="toTOC" href="index.html#fileList">Table of contents</a> <a class="next" href="ecuador.html">Next: Ecuador</a></div>
|
|
</nav>
|
|
<footer><div id="footer">
|
|
<div class="important-info"><h4>Important Information:</h4>
|
|
<ul><li><a href="/agency/">About Us</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="/accessibility/">Accessibility</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="/foia/">FOIA</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="/open/">Open Government</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="/agency/glossary/">Glossary</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="/privacy/">Privacy</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="https://oig.ssa.gov/report/">Report Fraud, Waste or Abuse</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="/agency/websitepolicies.html">Website Policies</a></li></ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<p class="align-center margin-top">This website is produced and published at U.S. taxpayer expense.</p>
|
|
</div></footer>
|
|
<!-- SSA INTERNET BODY SCRIPTS -->
|
|
<script src="/policy/js/rspa.doc.js"></script>
|
|
<script src="/policy/js/rspa-shared.js"></script>
|
|
<script src="/framework/js/ssa.internet.body.js"></script>
|
|
</body></html> |