The Council of Advisors approves a draft law to change the social security system

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The House of Advisors approved, during a general session held yesterday, Tuesday, by majority, draft law No. 02.24 amending and supplementing Royal Decree No. 1.72.184 dated 15 Jumada al-Akhira 1392 (July 27, 1972) relating to the social security system.

The draft law was approved by 33 parliamentary advisors, with three advisors abstaining from voting, and no opposition was recorded.

In an introductory speech to the draft law, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah, stressed that the review of the provisions of Royal Decree Law No. 1.72.184 relating to the social security system “came to keep pace, in particular, with the National Social Security Fund in its transformations and to enable it to play the role assigned to it in the success of the social protection generalization workshop, in accordance with the high royal directives, as it is one of the strategic priority areas for preventing economic and social fragility, reducing their severity and improving the living conditions of citizens.”

To this end, the Minister added, the draft law aims to review a set of aspects related to the governance of the National Social Security Fund and improve its services, in addition to implementing the contents of the social agreement between the government and professional and trade union organizations.

Speaking regarding the area of ​​governance, the government official pointed out that the draft law includes new provisions that aim primarily to stipulate the possibility of the fund managing other social protection systems under legislative texts, or where necessary under agreements, and to grant the fund’s general manager the powers necessary to manage the fund, and to grant the fund the possibility of establishing new companies, in accordance with the legislation in force, with the aim of developing methods of managing the areas entrusted to it to manage.

The project also specifies, according to the Minister, the terms and conditions for appointing members of the Board of Directors and the duration of their mandate, in addition to granting the latter the authority to create specialized committees to assist it in carrying out its duties.

As for improving the quality of services and simplifying procedures, Ms. Fattah explained that the draft law includes some provisions that are intended in particular to frame the procedures and methods for considering grievances and appeals related to the results of the monitoring and inspection missions carried out by the Fund, through the creation of regional committees and a national committee for appeals related to the results of monitoring and inspection in the field of social security, as well as framing the exclusion of some elements of wages, compensations and amounts paid by the employer to the employee to cover proven expenses incurred by the employee during the exercise of his work, as well as compensation resulting from the termination of the employment relationship, from the subscription base, and reviewing the rates for calculating late fees and fines resulting from failure to pay subscriptions within the specified deadlines.

The draft law also aims to give the Fund’s debts a public debt character to enable it to activate the provisions and mechanisms contained in the Public Debt Collection Code necessary to enhance the collection of its debts, and to enhance digitization, particularly with regard to the documents that the Fund sends to employers, as well as with regard to requests and documents related to compensation and declarations related to the social security system that employers submit to the Fund.

It also aims to implement the contents of the social agreement between the government and the most representative trade union organizations, especially in the aspect related to creating an old-age pension for insured persons who have at least 1,320 days of insurance and less than 3,240 days of insurance, in addition to stipulating transitional provisions aimed at settling the situation of the categories concerned by this procedure.