Development of More Equitable and Sustainable Social Protection System Alexey Vovchenko 2016, Shanghai

KEY TOPICS 2 Existing Social Protection System Major Social Challenges Key Focus Areas to Increase Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Social Protection System

SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM 3 Social Services Social Transfers Children and families Working age Unemployment Protection Occupational Health Protection Disability Protection Elderly

EXISTING SYSTEM: MAIN INDICATORS 4 Coverage - Constitution guarantees social security to everyone in old age, in case of an illness, disability, and loss of the breadwinner, for upbringing of children and in other cases established by law Expenditures of budgets of all levels on social policy increased in 2015 in comparison with 2011 by 36.7%

SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 5 Maternity and Child Benefits Social contracts Case management and individual social assistance

MATERNITY AND CHILD PROTECTION 6 Prenatal Registration Payment Lump sum childbirth grant Childcare benefits (up to 18 months) Maternity capital (second and subsequent child) Child Related Tax Deductions Paid maternity leave (up to 18 month) Unpaid maternity leave (up to 3 years) Partially Subsidized Kindergartens

DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILY SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES 7 Social Contracts Provide higher amounts of assistance for those who is pro active in job search, training, self employment Individualization of services (individual case management) Specifically important for families in difficult life situations

SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR WOMEN AND MEN OF WORKING AGE 8 Unemployment protection Employment injury protection Disability protection

PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE INCREASE 9

UNEMPLOYMENT PROTECTION 10 Active Labor Market Programs for unemployed and at risk of losing job  Job Placement  Training  Professional Orientation  Social Adaptation  Psychological support  Support to self-employed  Public works  Labor mobility support Unemployment benefits

EMPLOYMENT INJURY PROTECTION 11 4 classes of working conditions:  optimal  permissible  hazardous  dangerous. Objective : transition from compensation-based model to prevention-based model in addressing work place safety issues

DISABILITY PROTECTION 12 Creation of jobs with special equipment Accessible environment, Individual support to disabled Education and training Development of social care system

SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR OLDER WOMEN AND MEN 13  Labor Pensions - General (Old Aged Labor Pensions) - Early Retirement, including 1.Due to special conditions 2.Due to work in Hazardous conditions 3.Due to work in Far North 4.Due to Length of Service - Disability Pensions - Survivor’s pensions  Social Pensions

PENSIONS STATISTICS 14 Indexations: as of the February 1, ,4% As of February 1, % Starting with 2016: Average labor pension rub. (146% of Subsistence minimum of pensioner) Subsistence minimum of pensioner 8803 rub. Average social pension rub. (97,3% of Subsistence minimum of pensioner). Number of pensioners receiving labor pension in 2016 – 39,4 million persons. Total number of pensioners in в million persons.

PENSIONS AND PENSIONERS 15

PENSIONS VERSUS WAGES AND SUBSISTENCE MINIMUM 16

SOCIAL CARE 17 Better quality Better targeted Provided to different population groups

CHALLENGES THE SYSTEM IS FACING 18 Demographic changes stimulate dynamic structural changes in social protection system Labor mobility and informality puts on the agenda the questions of system’s flexibility, extension of coverage and protection eligibility Quality and quantity of protection - PPP for services provision

19 THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORECAST FOR RUSSIA AND THE DATA ON INFORMALITY SHARE OF THE INFORMALLY EMPLOYED BY AGE GROUP (2015)

SOCIAL PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT FOCUS AREAS 20 Targeted social assistance, Conditional based contracts and individualized Services provision Labor mobility and informality Increased involvement of NGOs in social services provision, development of PPP Improved working conditions

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