Drejtoria Rajonale E Sigurimeve Shoqerore

The first legal act in the field of social security available to the SII is Law # 8220; Civil Pensions ", No. 129, dated 28.10.1927. The very content of this legal act presupposes that even before there were provisions Some foreign companies operating in Albania have voluntarily developed a network of occupational safety and health, with a special place occupied by social security from accidents at work. The introduction of a more comprehensive social security system coincides with August 1947. This system was further amended and consolidated in 1966, with the adoption and implementation of Law No. 4171, dated 13.09. 1966 “On State Social Security in the USSR. Modeled in line with the socialist political system and based on the developments of a centrally planned economy, the social security system was very generous on the one hand and did not provide full social protection. It envisaged lower retirement ages and differentiated treatment for certain categories of persons. public sector employees and the other for members of agricultural cooperatives, which differed substantially from one another in some respects, but mainly by the magnitude of benefits to their participants. The insurance scheme for members of agricultural cooperatives offered very low benefits, which did not exceed 60% of the minimum monthly income provided by the state insurance scheme. The country's profound political and socio-economic transformation in the 1990s necessitated a radical reform of the social security system, which aimed at stopping further degradation of the pension scheme and choosing a new one. efficient system, which would not only withstand the emergent problems of the period and the costs borne, but also withstand the times of the future generations. For this reason, on May 11, 1993, Parliament approved Law no. 7703 "On Social Security in the Republic of Albania", which entered into force in October of that year. The reform of the old social security scheme is accomplished by establishing a new system, based on the principles of social justice. The General Social Security system relies on the contributory principle, the principle of individual responsibility for the risks of the future in the social field, as well as the principle of generational agreement # 8220; pay today to pay tomorrow (pay as you go). " The general social security system consists of: Compulsory Social Security, Voluntary Social Security, Supplementary Social Security, Special State Pensions. work due to illness, occupational diseases and accidents at work, old age, disability, loss of family member, unemployment and other economically active persons (employers and self-employed) in connection with: childbirth, old age, disability, loss of family member Also through the vu schemes supplementary and supplementary, the system provides pensions to a greater or lesser extent than the compulsory social security scheme provides. The system is administered by the Social Insurance Institute (SII), as a public, independent state institution. The system built in 1993, as a whole, has responded to the most pressing social protection needs for those categories of population it covers, but Adapting to the economic developments and needs dictated by time, it has undergone reforms and improvements.