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<h1>Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2015</h1>
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<h1>Ecuador</h1>
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<div class="exchangeRate">Exchange rate: Currency is the <abbr class="spell">US</abbr> dollar ($).</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> 1928.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current laws:</span> 2001 (social security), 2006 (social pensions), 2010 (disability attendance grant), 2012 (general law on disabilities), and 2013 (social pensions increment).</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social insurance and social assistance system.</p>
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<p>Note: The provision under the 2001 law to create a system of individual accounts to complement the social insurance <span class="nobr">old-age</span> pension program was not implemented.</p>
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<p>The social insurance system also includes special programs to provide <span class="nobr">old-age,</span> disability, and survivor benefits for families of rural workers and fishermen and for unpaid home-based workers. The programs are financed by a nominal contribution from the head of the family and contributions from workers, employers (except for unpaid home-based workers), and the government.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Social insurance:</span> Persons receiving income for work.</p>
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<p>Voluntary coverage for persons without mandatory coverage, including Ecuadorian citizens living abroad.</p>
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<p>Special systems for agricultural workers and small-scale fishermen and for unpaid home-based workers.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Social assistance:</span> Needy citizens of Ecuador.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social insurance:</span> 6.64% (public sector) and 8.64% (private sector) of gross earnings, plus 1% (special disability pension). The voluntarily insured pay 9.74% of gross earnings, plus 1% (special disability pension).</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> None.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social insurance:</span> 9.74% of gross declared earnings, plus 1% (special disability pension).</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> None.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social insurance:</span> 3.10% (public sector) and 1.10% (private sector) of gross payroll.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> None.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social insurance:</span> 40% of the cost of <span class="nobr">old-age,</span> disability, and survivor pensions; contributes as an employer.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Social assistance:</span> The total cost.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Old-age pension (social insurance):</span> At any age with at least 480 months of contributions; age 60 with at least 360 months of contributions; age 65 with at least 180 months of contributions; or age 70 with at least 120 months of contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Old-age pension (social assistance):</span> Age 65 and not insured under any social insurance system.</p>
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<p>Income test: Families must have income in the bottom 40% of all household incomes according to the SIIRS.</p>
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<p>The SIIRS is a national registry used to target needy families.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Disability pension</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Disability pension (social insurance):</span> Must have at least 60 months of contributions including the six months before the disability began and an assessed loss of more than 50% of earning capacity; at least 120 months of contributions and not receiving an <span class="nobr">old-age</span> pension if the disability began within two years after the termination of employment.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Special disability pension (social insurance):</span> Must be assessed with a disability of at least 40% (physical disability) or 20% (mental disability) and have at least 300 (physical disability) or 240 (mental disability) months of contributions; no contribution requirements for a total or absolute disability.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Disability pension (social assistance):</span> Must be assessed with a disability of at least 40% and not be insured under any social insurance scheme.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Attendance grant Joaquin Gallegos Lara (social assistance):</span> Paid to the primary caregiver of a person assessed with a severe physical (at least 75%) or mental (at least 65%) disability, suffering from a rare or catastrophic disease, or living with <abbr class="spell">HIV</abbr>/<abbr>AIDS</abbr> and younger than age 14.</p>
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<p>Income test: Families must have no more than 50 points in the SIIRS; no income test if living with <abbr class="spell">HIV</abbr>/<abbr>AIDS</abbr> and younger than age 14.</p>
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<p>The SIIRS is a national registry used to target needy families.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Survivor pension</span></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Survivor pension (social insurance):</span> The deceased received or was entitled to receive a social insurance <span class="nobr">old-age</span> or disability pension or had at least 60 months of contributions at the time of death.</p>
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<p>Eligible survivors include a widow or a dependent, disabled widower; a female or dependent, disabled male partner who cohabitated with the deceased for at least two years before the death or had children with the deceased; dependent children younger than age 18 (no limit if disabled); and, if there are no other survivors, a dependent mother and a dependent, disabled father.</p>
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<p>The <span class="nobr">widow(er)'s</span> pension ceases on remarriage or cohabitation.</p>
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<p><span class="h5">Funeral grant (social insurance):</span> The deceased received or was entitled to receive a social insurance <span class="nobr">old-age</span> or disability pension or had at least six months of contributions in the last 12 months at the time of death.</p>
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<h3>Old-Age Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension (social insurance):</span> A percentage of the insured's average monthly earnings in the five best years of earnings is paid, according to the total number of years of contributions (50% for 10 years, 75% for 30 years, 81.25% for 35 years, and 100% for 40 years). The pension is increased by 1.25% for each year exceeding 40 years.</p>
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<p>The minimum monthly pension is $177.</p>
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<p>The maximum monthly pension is $1,947.</p>
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<p>Old-age pensioners may return to work and receive a pension. During the first year of receiving the pension, the pensioner must work for a different employer than the employer who certified the pension claim.</p>
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<p>Schedule of payments: 12 monthly payments plus two bonus payments a year.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually. Adjustments range from 4.31% to 16.16% and are inversely proportional to the amount of benefit.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Old-age pension (social assistance):</span> $50 a month is paid.</p>
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<h3>Permanent Disability Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Disability pension (social insurance):</span> A percentage of the insured's average monthly earnings in the five best years of earnings is paid, according to the total number of years of contributions (43.75% for five years, 50% for 10 years, 62.5% for 20 years, 68.75% for 25 years, and 75% for 30 years).</p>
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<p>The minimum monthly pension is $177.</p>
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<p>The maximum monthly pension is $1,947.</p>
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<p>Schedule of payments: 12 monthly payments plus two bonus payments a year.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Special disability pension (social insurance):</span> 68.75% of the insured's average monthly earnings in the best five years of earnings is paid.</p>
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<p>The minimum monthly pension is $177.</p>
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<p>The maximum monthly pension is $1,947.</p>
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<p>Schedule of payments: 12 monthly payments plus two bonus payments a year.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually. Adjustments range from 4.31% to 16.16% and are inversely proportional to the amount of benefit.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Disability pension (social assistance):</span> $50 a month is paid.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Joaquin Gallegos Lara attendance grant (social assistance):</span> $240 a month is paid.</p>
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<h3>Survivor Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Spouse's pension:</span> 40% of the <span class="nobr">old-age</span> or disability pension the deceased received or was entitled to receive is paid to an eligible <span class="nobr">widow(er)</span> or partner.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Orphan's pension:</span> 20% of the <span class="nobr">old-age</span> or disability pension the deceased received or was entitled to receive is paid to each orphan younger than age 18 (no limit if disabled); 40% for a full orphan.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Other eligible survivors:</span> 20% of the <span class="nobr">old-age</span> or disability pension the deceased received or was entitled to receive is paid to a mother or father.</p>
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<p>The minimum monthly pension is $177.</p>
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<p>The maximum monthly pension is $1,947.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually by 8.4%.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Funeral grant:</span> Up to $1,416 is paid.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Social Security Institute (<a href="https://www.iess.gob.ec/">http://www.iess.gov.ec</a>), through its Directive Council, regulates and administers the social insurance program.</p>
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<p>Ministry of Social and Economic Inclusion (<a href="https://www.inclusion.gob.ec">http://www.inclusion.gob.ec</a>) administers the <span class="nobr">old-age</span> and disability social assistance pensions as part of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano program (see Family Allowances) and pays the Joaquin Gallegos Lara attendance grant.</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> 1935.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current law:</span> 2001 (social security).</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>Persons receiving income for work and beneficiaries of <span class="nobr">old-age,</span> disability, work injury, or survivor benefits.</p>
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<p>Voluntary coverage for persons not subject to mandatory coverage</p>
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<p>Special systems for agricultural workers and small-scale fishermen.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> None; 4.15% of the pension (survivor beneficiaries); 5.71% of gross earnings (voluntarily insured persons).</p>
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<p>Insured persons may insure their spouse with an additional contribution of 3.41%.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> 5.71% of gross declared earnings.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 5.71% of payroll.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> The total cost for <span class="nobr">old-age,</span> disability, and work injury beneficiaries.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Cash sickness benefits:</span> Must have at least six months of contributions before the incapacity began or at least 189 days of contributions in the eight months before the incapacity began. Coverage continues for 60 days after the insured ceases to pay contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Cash maternity benefits:</span> Must have at least 12 months of contributions before giving birth. Prenatal care is provided with at least three months of contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Medical benefits:</span> Must have at least three months of continuous contributions. Coverage continues for 60 days after the insured ceases to pay contributions.</p>
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<h3>Sickness and Maternity Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Sickness benefit:</span> Paid from the fourth day of incapacity for the first 10 weeks, 75% of the insured's earnings used to calculate contributions in the three months before the incapacity began is paid for up to 70 days; thereafter, 66% for up to 182 days.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Maternity benefit:</span> 75% of the insured's last earnings used to calculate contributions is paid for two weeks before and 10 weeks after the expected date of childbirth; paid for an additional 10 days for multiple births. (The employer pays 25% of the insured's last earnings for the same period of time.)</p>
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<h3>Workers' Medical Benefits</h3>
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<p>Medical facilities of the Social Security Institute provide medical services directly to patients. Benefits include general and specialist care, surgery, hospitalization, medicine, laboratory services, and dental care. A refund for the cost of medical care provided through medical facilities not part of the Social Security Institute is possible in case of emergency.</p>
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<h3>Dependents' Medical Benefits</h3>
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<p>Full medical care is provided for children of insured persons up to age 18 and beneficiaries of the orphan's pension.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Social Security Institute (<a href="https://www.iess.gob.ec/">http://www.iess.gob.ec</a>), through its Directive Council, regulates and administers the program and operates its own clinics, dispensaries, and hospitals.</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> 1964.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current law:</span> 2001 (social security).</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>Persons receiving income for work.</p>
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<p>Voluntary coverage for persons without mandatory coverage.</p>
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<p>Exclusions: Ecuadorians citizens residing abroad.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> None; 0.55% of gross earnings for the voluntarily insured.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Self-employed person:</span> 0.55% of gross declared earnings.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> 0.55% of payroll.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> 40% of the cost of work injury pensions.</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.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Occupational disease benefits:</span> Must have at least six months of contributions.</p>
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<h3>Temporary Disability Benefits</h3>
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<p>For the first 10 weeks, 75% of the insured's average earnings in the three months before the disability began is paid after a <span class="nobr">two-day</span> waiting period for up to 70 days; after 70 days, 66% until the end of the 12th month. If the disability lasts more than one year, 80% is paid for up to two additional years.</p>
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<h3>Permanent Disability Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Permanent disability pension:</span> 80% of the insured's average earnings (100% if constant attendance is required) in the last year or in the previous five years (whichever is greater) is paid.</p>
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<p>Partial disability: A percentage of the full pension is paid according to the assessed degree of disability.</p>
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<p>Schedule of payments: 12 monthly payments plus two bonus payments a year.</p>
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<p>Benefit adjustment: Benefits are adjusted annually. Adjustments range from 4.31% to 16.16% and are inversely proportional to the amount of benefit.</p>
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<h3>Workers' Medical Benefits</h3>
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<p>Benefits include medical and surgical care, hospitalization, appliances, and rehabilitation.</p>
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<h3>Survivor Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Spouse's pension:</span> 40% of the permanent disability pension the deceased received or was entitled to receive is paid to a widow or a dependent, disabled widower, or to a female or dependent, disabled male partner who cohabitated with the deceased.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Orphan's pension:</span> 20% of the permanent disability pension the deceased received or was entitled to receive is paid to each dependent orphan younger than age 18 (no limit if disabled); 40% for a full orphan.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Other eligible survivors:</span> If there is no eligible spouse, partner, or child, 20% of the permanent disability pension the deceased received or was entitled to receive is paid to a dependent mother or a dependent, disabled father.</p>
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<p>The minimum monthly pension is $177.</p>
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<p>The maximum monthly pension is $1,947.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Funeral grant:</span> Up to $1,416 is paid.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Social Security Institute (<a href="https://www.iess.gob.ec/">http://www.iess.gov.ec</a>), through its Directive Council, regulates and administers the program.</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 law:</span> 1951.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current laws:</span> 2001 (social security).</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Mandatory individual account system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p>Employed persons.</p>
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<p>Exclusions: Self-employed persons.</p>
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<h3>Source of Funds</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Insured person:</span> 2% of gross earnings.</p>
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<p>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</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>The minimum earnings used to calculate contributions are $354.</p>
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<p>There are no maximum earnings used to calculate contributions.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> Provides subsidies in special cases; contributes as an employer.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p>Must have at least 24 months of contributions. The benefit is paid after two months of unemployment.</p>
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<h3>Unemployment Benefits</h3>
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<p>A lump sum of the individual account balance is paid to the insured person if unemployed or when the insured person begins to receive an <span class="nobr">old-age,</span> permanent disability, or permanent work injury pension; if the insured person dies, the benefit is paid to a widow, a disabled widower, children younger than age 18, or, if there is no surviving spouse or child, certain other surviving relatives.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Social Security Institute (<a href="https://www.iess.gob.ec/">http://www.iess.gov.ec</a>) 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 law:</span> 1998 (Bono Solidario).</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Current laws:</span> 2003 (conditional cash transfer) and 2013 (conditional cash transfer increment).</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Type of program:</span> Social assistance system.</p>
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<h3>Coverage</h3>
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<p>Needy citizens of Ecuador.</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> None.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Employer:</span> None.</p>
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<p><span class="h4">Government:</span> The total cost.</p>
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<h3>Qualifying Conditions</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Bono de Desarrollo Humano cash transfer (social assistance):</span> Children younger than age 5 and pregnant women must attend regular medical visits; children aged 5 to 18 must be enrolled in and regularly attend school. Parents must receive training in early childhood development.</p>
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<p>Income test: Families must have income in the bottom 40% of all household incomes according to the SIIRS.</p>
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<p>The SIIRS is a national registry used to target needy families.</p>
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<h3>Family Allowance Benefits</h3>
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<p><span class="h4">Bono de Desarrollo Humano cash transfer (social assistance):</span> $50 a month is paid to the mother.</p>
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<h3>Administrative Organization</h3>
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<p>Ministry of Social and Economic Inclusion (<a href="https://www.inclusion.gob.ec">http://www.inclusion.gob.ec</a>) administers the program.</p>
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