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Comparative Tables on Social Protection - Query

Situation on 01/07/2011

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I. Financing
Financing principle
1. Sickness and maternity: Benefits in kind
2. Sickness and maternity: Cash benefits
3. Long-term care
4. Invalidity
5. Old-age
6. Survivors
7. Accidents at work and occupational diseases
8. Unemployment
9. Family allowances
Contributions of insured and employers
1. Overall contributions
2. Sickness and maternity: Benefits in kind
3. Sickness and maternity: Cash benefits
4. Long-term care
5. Invalidity
6. Old-age
7. Survivors
8. Accidents at work and occupational diseases
9. Unemployment
10. Family allowances
11. Other special contributions
Public authorities'participation
1. Sickness and maternity: Benefits in kind
2. Sickness and maternity: Cash benefits
3. Long-term care
4. Invalidity
5. Old-age
6. Survivors
7. Accidents at work and occupational diseases
8. Unemployment
9. Family allowances
10. General non-contributory minimum
Financing systems for long-term benefits
1. Invalidity
2. Old-age
3. Survivors
4. Employment injuries and occupational diseases
II. Health care
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
1. Beneficiaries
2. Exemptions from compulsory insurance
3. Voluntarily insured
4. Eligible dependants
Conditions
1. Qualifying period
2. Duration of benefits
Organisation
1. Doctors:
Approval
Remuneration
2. Hospitals
Benefits
1. Medical treatment:
Choice of doctor
Access to specialists
Payment of doctor
Patient charges
Exemption or reduction of patient charges
2. Hospitalisation:
Choice of and access to hospital
Patient charges
Exemption or reduction of patient charges
3. Dental care:
Treatment
Dental prosthesis
4. Pharmaceutical products
5. Prosthesis, spectacles, hearing-aids
6. Other benefits
III. Sickness - cash benefits
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
1. Beneficiaries
2. Membership ceiling
3. Exemptions from compulsory insurance
Conditions
1. Proof of incapacity for work
2. Qualifying period
3. Other conditions
Waiting period
Benefits
1. Benefits paid by employers
2. Benefits of social protection
Amount of the benefits
Duration of benefits
Special conditions for unemployed
Death grant
Other benefits
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of cash benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from benefits
IV. Maternity/Paternity
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
1. Benefits in kind
2. Cash benefits
Conditions
1. Benefits in kind
2. Cash benefits
Benefits
1. Benefits in kind
2. Maternity leave
Prior to and after confinement
Continuation of payment by the employer
3. Cash benefits
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of cash benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from benefits
V. Invalidity
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
Exemptions from compulsory insurance
Risk covered
Conditions
1. Minimum level of incapacity for work
2. Possibility of review
3. Period for which cover is given
4. Minimum period of affiliation for entitlement
Benefits
1. Determining factors for the amount of benefits
2. Calculation method, pension formula or amounts
3. Reference earnings or calculation basis
4. Non contributory periods credited or taken into consideration
5. Supplements for dependants (spouse, children, other dependants)
6. Minimum pension
7. Maximum pension
8. Other benefits
Adjustment
Accumulation with other social security benefits
Accumulation with earnings from work
Return to active life
1. Rehabilitation, retraining
2. Preferential employment of persons with disabilities
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of pension benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from pension
VI. Old-age
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
Exemptions from compulsory insurance
Conditions
1. Minimum period of membership
2. Conditions for drawing full pension
3. Legal retirement age
Standard pension
Early pension
Deferred pension
Benefits
1. Determining factors
2. Calculation method or pension formula
3. Reference earnings or calculation basis
4. Non-contributory periods credited or taken into consideration
5. Supplements for dependants (spouse, children, other dependants)
Other dependants
6. Special supplements
7. Minimum pension
8. Maximum pension
9. Early pension
10. Deferment
Adjustment
Partial pension
Accumulation with earnings from work
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of pension benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from pension
VII. Survivors
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
Exemptions from compulsory insurance
Entitled persons
Conditions
1. Deceased insured person
2. Surviving spouse
3. Divorced spouse
4. Surviving partner or cohabitant
5. Children
6. Other persons
Benefits
1. Surviving spouse, Divorced spouse, Surviving partner
2. Surviving spouse: remarriage
3. Orphan children (having lost one parent, having lost both parents)
4. Other beneficiaries
5. Maximum for all those entitled to benefits
6. Other benefits
7. Minimum pension
8. Maximum pension
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of cash benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from benefits
VIII. Accidents at work and occupational diseases
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
1. Beneficiaries
2. Exemptions from compulsory insurance
Risks covered
1. Accidents at work
2. Travel between home and work
3. Occupational diseases
Conditions
1. Accidents at work
2. Occupational diseases
Benefits
1. Temporary incapacity:
Benefits in kind
Choice of doctor or hospital
Payment of costs and contribution by person involved
Cash benefits
Waiting period
Duration of benefits
Amount of the benefit
2. Permanent incapacity
Minimum level of incapacity giving entitlement to compensation
Possibility of review
Reference earnings or calculation basis
Amount or formula
Supplements for dependants
Supplements for care by another person
Redemption
Accumulation with new earnings from work
Accumulation with other social security benefits
3. Death
Surviving spouse
Orphans
Dependent parents and other relatives
Maximum for all beneficiaries
Capital sum on death
4. Rehabilitation
5. Other benefits
Adjustment
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of cash benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from benefits
IX. Family benefits
Applicable statutory basis
Child benefit
1. Basic principles
2. Field of application: beneficiaries
3. Conditions
Residence of the child
Other conditions
4. Age limit
5. Benefits
Monthly amounts
Variation with income
Variation with age
6. Special cases: (unemployed persons, pensioners, orphans)
Child-raising allowances
1. Basic principles
2. Field of application: beneficiaries
3. Conditions
4. Amounts of benefits
Child care allowances
1. Basic principles
2. Field of application: beneficiaries
3. Conditions
4. Amounts of benefits
Other benefits
1. Birth and adoption grants
2. Allowance for single parents
3. Special allowances for children with disabilities
4. Advance on maintenance payments
5. Other allowances
Adjustment
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of cash benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from benefits
X. Unemployment
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Field of application
Total unemployment
1. Conditions
Main conditions
Qualifying period
Means test
Waiting period
2. Benefits
Determining factors
Earnings taken as reference and ceiling
Rates of the benefits
Family supplements
Other supplements
Duration of benefits
3. Sanctions
4. Accumulation with other social security benefits
5. Accumulation with earnings from work
Partial unemployment
1. Definition
2. Conditions
3. Rates of the benefits
4. Sanctions
5. Accumulation with other social security benefits
6. Accumulation with earnings from work
Benefits for older unemployed
1. Measure
2. Conditions
3. Rates of the benefits
4. Accumulation
Adjustment
Taxation and social contributions
1. Taxation of cash benefits
2. Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3. Social security contributions from benefits
XI: GUARANTEED MINIMUM RESOURCES
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Entitled persons / beneficiaries
Conditions
1.Nationality
2.Residence
3.Age
4.Means-related conditions
Rights in rem (real property)
Personal property (movable assets)
Income and (other) benefits
Exhaustion of other claims
Exemption of resources
5.Requirements for job search, vocational training and behaviour modification
6.Other conditions
Cash benefits
1.Determining factors
Level and sufficiency of actual resources
Domestic unit for calculation of benefits
Impact of family composition
2.Amounts
3.Duration and time limits
4.Indexation
Housing and heating allowances
Assessment of claims
Recovery of benefits
Special rights in health care
Taxation and social contributions
1.Taxation of cash benefits
2.Limit of income for tax relief or tax reduction
3.Social security contributions from benefits
XII. Long-term care
Applicable statutory basis
Basic principles
Risk covered
Definition
Field of application
Conditions
1. Qualifying period
2. Means test
3. Minimum level of dependency
4. Age
5. Duration of benefits
Organisation
1. Evaluators
2. Providers • informal caregivers • professional providers
3. Evaluation of care dependency
indicators
categories
Benefits in kind
1. Home care
2. Semi-residential care
3. Residential care
4. Other benefits
Cash benefits
1. Amount
2. Discretionary use
Combination of benefits
1. Mixed benefits
2. Free choice between cash and benefits in kind
Accumulation
1. Accumulation of cash benefits with benefits in kind
2. Accumulation with other social security benefits
Benefits for the carer
User charges
Taxation