Work confirms recovery of more than 20 billion dinars from the squatters on social protection

25.02.2016

The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Mohammad Xiaa Sudanese, the ministry carried out in collaboration with the World Bank strategic program runs for five years until 2019 and represents a road map of the ministry in the next phase, as explained that the Law on Social Protection represents a qualitative leap in the field of social security for the poor provision.

Sudan said in a speech during a workshop held by the Ministry with the World Bank; to discuss the first phase of support for social protection in Iraq on the Hall-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad program on Wednesday that "the protection system includes new mechanisms and systems for effective programs to build social researchers abilities and An_ia Social Protection Fund uniform and put mechanisms to invest his money. "

"The ministry cut off an important way in purification and organizing social protection network of squatters them and is eligible in light of the strict implementation of the provisions of Law No. (11) for the year 2014, which represents a quantum leap in the field of social security for the poor to secure and ensure a decent life for citizens living below the poverty line." , pointing out that "the ministry has managed to recover more than 20 billion dinars from the squatters on social protection."

"The ministry has worked on for a period of beneficiary data from the subsidy of social protection to keep out non-eligible income for the program base was able to board the social protection of the survey nearly one million families and individuals registered with it will be after the exclusion of non-eligible based on the poverty line standards."

He noted that "according to the road map that has been agreed upon with the Bank, the Department of pension and social security is a responsibility to work to build departments with outstanding performance and the adoption of innovative programs to adopt the rules of information and data on the labor force in the country to be a reliable source for the advancement of the functions of social security and development of infrastructure the underlying labor market information. "

He said the "workshop held by the Ministry with the World Bank in the presence of international organizations and the Ministry of Planning and international partners retirement and the board of the public come; to review the road map approved by the ministry in collaboration with the World Bank concerning the networks of social security, social security and the labor market", adding that "the system social protection is a reliable database as it was through the strategy of poverty alleviation adopted by the government. "

He continued, saying that "in spite of the financial crisis and economic conditions experienced by the country as a result of lower oil prices, the government has been allocating funds for the program of social protection and reached the program allocations to a trillion and 900 billion dinars identified disbursed to families which are below the poverty line mechanism."

For his part, representative of the World Bank adviser Ramzi Naaman said, "The workshop comes to discuss with the social partners, government and non-government agencies to cooperate in the implementation of the roadmap of social protection in Iraq, which extends from 2015 up to 2019 system," pointing out that "the Bank's work with the ministry to develop programs to improve the level of departments and locations in order to reach an optimal implementation of this system, which will have a positive impact on other sectors. "