The start of activation of the Convention on social insurance between Egypt and Tunisia in mid-current year

Within the framework of activating insurance coverage and extending insurance care for Egyptian in outside Egypt and the protection of their rights, Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali, Minister of Finance, said there were negotiations for the signing of several insurance agreements with Jordan, Libya and Austria, where big Egyptian communities are found.

The minister said that these agreements will allow the extension of insurance coverage to these communities and also to nationals of the three countries operating in Egypt, so the agreement allowing the collection of contributions from the Egyptian workers in Jordan, for example, at the time of retirement and pension and return of those employers to Egypt, Jordan get up to transfer of this pensions and other entitlements to Egyptian insurance authority which will pay it to the workers and this as the agreements already exist with the Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Greece, Cyprus and the Netherlands.

On the other hand, the Egyptian-Tunisian Committee concluded in charge of preparing the list of administrative and technical procedures of the Convention on social security between Egypt and Tunisia agree on most of the regulations which are 45 Articles has been completed the drafting of 42 articles of the Regulation, Wijdan Abu Ata Chairman of the Social Insurance for public and private sector workers said that the regulation show how the Egyptian workers in Tunisia and the Tunisian brothers obtain all the insurance services and benefits granted through the social security laws in both countries and the most important of these benefits to get a monthly pension upon retirement and compensation in the event of injury at work and accident insurance and occupational diseases.

She noted that the Committee postponed the discussion of the remaining three articles of the Committee's meeting in Tunisia in mid-current year, to commence implementation of the agreement immediately after the issuance of regulation , and the preparation of the beneficiaries of the Convention indicated that the number of Egyptian workers in Tunisia, approximately fifty thousand people, and there are prospects to increase the number in the coming period with the increase in the volume of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.

She said the Tunisian side in the committee, chaired by Assaad Zarrouk the Director-General of the Ministry of Social Security in Tunisian agreed recently during his visit to Cairo with the leaders of the Social Insurance Authority on the organization of training courses for workers in the field of social insurance of both countries, and also agreed to exchange information, experiences and technical cooperation and legislation between the two countries.

She added that the meetings of the Committee also discussed the Egyptian experience in the development of social security systems and the establishment of a centralized computer to the social insurance funds as well as the status of an electronic receipt of complaints and customer service.

(Source: Ministry of Finance)