Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes the reports supplied in 2012 by the Government under Conventions Nos 102, 121 and 130 which indicate certain achievements since the adoption of the new Pensions Act in 2010 in terms of extending coverage, increasing the level of benefits and improving the collection of contributions. The Committee observes, however, that the main challenges stated in its 2011 observation remain the same, given that only 34 per cent of the population has health coverage and 13.75 per cent has pension insurance. The Committee would therefore like the Government, in its next report, to reply in more detail to the general observation formulated by the Committee in 2011 in the context of the major structural reforms and to supply the following statistical information in the format required by the report form:

• -Convention No. 102:

Part II. Medical care. Article 9 of the Convention (in conjunction with Article 76). Persons protected.

Part VII. Family benefit. Article 41 (in conjunction with Article 76). Persons protected.

Article 44. Total value of benefits granted.

Part VIII. Maternity benefit. Article 48 (in conjunction with Article 76). Persons protected.

Article 50 (in conjunction with Articles 65, 66 or 67). Level of periodical payments.

• -Convention No. 121:

Article 4. Persons covered.

Articles 14 and 18 (in conjunction with Articles 19 or 20). Level of periodical payments.

• -Convention No. 130:

Article 19. Persons covered.

Article 21 (in conjunction with Articles 22 or 23). Level of periodical payments.

The Committee draws the Government’s attention to the possibility of requesting the technical assistance of the Office on the quantitative requirements of the Convention, including the scope of coverage for each of the covered contingencies, the level of periodical payments (calculated according to the requirements set out by the above provisions), or the proportion of the financial resources constituted by the insurance contributions of employees protected (Article 71(2) of Convention No. 102).

Temporary exceptions made upon the ratification of Conventions Nos 102, 121 and 130 in 1977. The Committee notes that the Government has availed itself of the possibility provided by these instruments to temporarily restrain the circle of persons protected and their benefit entitlements under these instruments in situations in which the economic and medical facilities are insufficiently developed. The Committee observes however that the information provided in the reports does not refer to the temporary exceptions but instead to the general provisions of the Conventions. The Committee welcomes this initiative and wishes to encourage the Government to formally supply a declaration stating that it renounces the temporary exceptions made upon the ratification of these Conventions, as prescribed by their relevant provisions.