| Date: | 2019- |
| Description: | The solidarity pensions of the Subsidized Regime correspond to the Old Age, Disability and Survival Insurance of the Subsidized Regime, in accordance with the provisions of Article 63 of Law 87-01 that creates the Dominican Social Security System (SDSS). The Subsidized Regime seeks to protect, through state financing, workers, unemployed, people with disabilities and indigent people. These solidarity pensions are granted to people of limited resources who are over 60 years of age, to people of any age with a disability, to unemployed single mothers with minor children, and to spouses and children of destinataries of Solidarity Pensions who have died. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | a) People over 60 years of age whose income is less than 50% of the National Minimum Wage; b) People of any age with a disability, whether physical, mental and / or sensory, that limits or prevents them from performing productive work and cannot guarantee their livelihood, provided that it does not depend directly on another person affiliated or not to the Dominican System of Social Security (SDSS) or that does not receive another pension, whether contributory or non-contributory; c) Spouses and children of deceased Solidarity Pension beneficiaries; and d) Single mothers with underage children, who lack sufficient resources to meet their essential needs and ensure their children's education. |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | 1) On demand 2) Geographic 3) Categorical, according to eligibility criteria, which include having scarce resources according to a socioeconomic evaluation that uses a proxy means test. |
| Instrument of selection: | Quality of Life Index (ICV), Evaluation Request Form for the Solidarity Pension and administrative data bases of social security affiliation. |
| Registry of recipients: | 10086 |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | Program recipients are evaluated every two years to verify if they continue to meet the minimum requirements established to continue receiving the pensions. |
| Comments: | Solidarity pensions are assigned by municipalities, taking into account the number of inhabitants, the level of local poverty and the evaluation of the Quality of Life Index (ICV) performed by SIUBEN. This decision will correspond to the National Social Security Council (CNSS), who will receive the collaboration of the public institutions of the central government and of the provincial and municipal authorities, in accordance with the law. The recipients of this pension are entitled to the Basic Health Plan covered by the Dominican State (Family Health Insurance of the Subsidized Regime). People in poverty are understood as those with incomes below 50% of the national minimum wage, provided that, in addition, family per capita income is also below that percentage. The recipients of a Solidarity Pension may have occasional paid jobs provided that the income from this concept does not exceed the amount of 50% of the National Minimum Wage. Priority is given to families with lower Quality of Life Index and households with one or more persons with disabilities. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Law No. 87-01 of 2001; Decree No. 381-13 of 2013. |
| Responsible organization(s): | National Social Security Council (CNSS) |
| Executing organization(s): | Provincial Development Councils (CDP) and Ministry of Finance. |
| Responsible organization(s) for the registry of recipients: | Superintendency of Pensions (SIPEN) and SIUBEN, as an entity of the Social Policy Coordination Cabinet, attached to the Executive branch. |
| Source of funding: | National Budget |
1) Solidarity Pension for Old Age
| Recipient(s): | People over 60 years of age whose income is less than 50% of the National Minimum Wage. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Through electronic means |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Maximum per household: | nan |
| Conditionalities: | nan |
| Sanctions: | nan |
| Comments: | The pension is updated according to the variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), adjusted according to the increase in the Minimum Public Wage. |
| Amount : | Equivalent to 60% of the public minimum wage and includes an extra Christmas pension. |
2) Solidarity Pension for Disability
| Recipient(s): | All people with disabilities, regardless of age, with limited resources and whose degree of disability establishes that the decrease in their capacity exceeds half of their capacity to perform any productive activity. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Through electronic means |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Maximum per household: | nan |
| Conditionalities: | nan |
| Sanctions: | nan |
| Comments: | The pension is updated according to the variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), adjusted according to the increase in the Minimum Public Wage. People with disabilities are considered as people who are permanently unable to perform productive work, or who have suffered a decrease of at least 50% in their work capacity, who cannot guarantee their subsistence and who are not entitled to another pension of the Dominican Social Security System (SDSS). The Regional Medical Commission (CMR) is responsible for the Evaluation of the Degree of Disability of people who meet the socioeconomic requirements. The opinion issued by the CMR must be certified by the Disability Technical Commission of the Superintendence of Pensions (SIPEN). |
| Amount : | Equivalent to 60% of the public minimum wage and includes an extra Christmas pension. |
3) Solidarity Pension for Survival
| Recipient(s): | The spouse and children of a deceased recipients of a Solidarity Pension. Specifically: a) The surviving spouse or, failing that, the life partner, provided that he was not prevented from entering into marriage; b) Unmarried children under 18 years of age, or unmarried children over 18 and under 21 years of age who demonstrate regular studies during the six months prior to the death of the recipient of the Solidarity Pension; c) Children of any age with disabilities. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Through electronic means |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Maximum per household: | nan |
| Conditionalities: | nan |
| Sanctions: | nan |
| Comments: | The pension is updated according to the variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), adjusted according to the increase in the Minimum Public Wage. |
| Amount : | Equivalent to 60% of the public minimum wage and includes an extra Christmas pension. |
4) Solidarity Pension for single mothers with underage children in their care
| Recipient(s): | Unmarried single women, with minor children attending school and lacking sufficient resources to meet their essential needs and ensure the education of their children |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Through electronic means |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Maximum per household: | nan |
| Conditionalities: | nan |
| Sanctions: | nan |
| Comments: | The pension is updated according to the variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), adjusted according to the increase in the Minimum Public Wage. |
| Amount : | Equivalent to 60% of the public minimum wage and includes an extra Christmas pension. |
Regulation that establishes the procedure for assigning pension of the subsidiary regimen
| Author: | Social Security National Council |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Publication info: | Official documment of Dominican Republic goverment |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Program description |
