The Dominican population has started to fall deeper into the third stage of the demographic transition: this is evidenced in the great proportion of seniors within the total population (9.5% of the population in 2015 and 21.4% projected in 2050) and within the dependent population.<\/p>\n
According to the 2010 National Population and Housing Census 855,663 Dominican are senior citizens, of which 51.4% are women and 48.6% are men. This segment of the population is concentrated mostly in urban areas, although the most elderly provinces are Santiago Rodr\u00edguez (14%), Hermanas Mirabal (13%), and San Juan, El Seibo, Dajab\u00f3n and San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa (12%).<\/p>\n
These figures established that more than 50 percent of elderly people live in expanded type homes. Within the category of marital relations, the majority of men are married or in a civil union while the majority of women tend to be widowed. Likewise, it indicates that 46.7% have some type of disability.<\/p>\n
Source: National Office of Statistics (ONE, for its acronym in Spanish)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Links:<\/em><\/p>\n Pensions Commission of the Dominican Republic Ministry of Labor National Social Security Council Dominican Institute of Welfare <\/p>\n Legal Framework:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The Pensions System is established with the law 87-01 which creates the Dominican Social Security System.<\/p>\n Law No. 87-01<\/strong> \u2013 Creates the Dominican Social Security System and its modifications with the objective of regulating and ensuring the rights and reciprocal duties of the State and Dominican citizens in regard to the protection of risks of: old-age, unemployment due to advanced age, disability and survival.<\/p>\n Law No. 188-07- <\/strong>Introduces modification to the Law No. 87-01, which creates the Dominican Social Security System.<\/p>\n Pensions Regulation approved by the Executive Power December 19, 2002 through the Decree 969-02<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Currently, two systems of pensions coexist in the country. The first refers to the old Sistema de Reparto <\/em>(System of Distribution), in which only those that possess the acquired rights can remain. Whereas the second refers to the new Sistema de Capitalizaci\u00f3n Individual<\/em> (Individual Capitalization System) established through the Law 87-01 that came into effect beginning 2003.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is Social Security and what are its benefits?<\/strong><\/p>\n Social Security is the right of every person, independent of his social, economic or any other condition, to protection against the risks of disease, old age, incapacitation, unemployment due to older age, maternity and labor risks.<\/p>\n It is universal, which signifies that it cannot exclude anyone from anything.\u00a0 Social Security is consecrated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which served as a foundation for the creation of the United Nations in 1948, of which the Dominican Republic is a member.<\/p>\n The essential difference between social insurance and social security is that social insurance is a labor right that only covers workers and, in the best of cases, their families.\u00a0 That is, it excludes the population that is not connected to the world of salaried work.\u00a0 Social security, however, is not just a labor right, but a human right, which encompasses all Dominicans and all residents of the country.\u00a0 Consequently, the change from a social insurance to a social security system contributes to encouraging the equality of human beings in the opportunities for enjoying protection against disease, work accidents, and risks of old age and incapacity.<\/p>\n Source: Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social (National Social Security Council)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Art. 7 of the Law 87-01 establishes that the Dominican Social Security System (SDSS, for its acronym in Spanish) will be integrated by the following systems of funding:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The pension system has the objective of replacing the loss or reduction of income due to old-age, death, disability, unemployment in advanced age and survival.<\/p>\n The provisional system, under the contributory system, will provide the following benefits: a) a pension for old-age; b) a pensions for total or partial disability; c) a pension for unemployment due to advanced age; d) a survival pension.<\/p>\n Likewise, the pension for old-age includes protection for the pensioner and their surviving family members. They are acquired the same right when the affiliate certifies: a) to be sixty (60) years old and have paid contributions for a minimum of three hundred sixty (360) months; or b) is fifty-five (55) years old and accumulated a fund that allows them to enjoy fifty percent (50%) of the minimum pension.<\/p>\n Source: Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Administrators of the Pension Funds of the Dominican Republic: <\/strong><\/p>\n AFP Scotia Crecer AFP Popular AFP Reservas AFP Siembra AFP Romana
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