Feb 22, 2022

Mrs. Nevin Al-Kabbaj, Minister of Social Solidarity, announced the inclusion of 3,000 rural women leaders in the social insurance system, starting from January 2022, at a cost of 4.5 million pounds annually, for the first time in the history of the insurance system, as they are among the categories of irregular workers required by Social Insurance Law No. 148 of the year 2019 with insurance, and the Ministry of Social Solidarity is in the process of establishing and registering a central association for women social entrepreneurs to be responsible for paying their insurances and taking care of their interests, with the Ministry supervising the provision of an integrated package of social protection through coordination with the relevant authorities. The Minister of Social Solidarity said that coordination had been made with the National Social Insurance Authority to include women social pioneers in insurance protection, in implementation of presidential mandates to extend social protection to all categories of irregular workers. A decision was issued by the head of the National Social Insurance Authority to include female rural pioneers in the irregular workers category, allowing them to By enjoying all the benefits of the new social insurance law, especially obtaining a retirement pension, in addition to many other social benefits such as a pension for injury during work, and a pension for heirs in the event of the death of the insured, their families receive a pension of no less than 916 pounds at the present time, with the minimum pension gradually increasing over over the coming years. Al-Qabbaj confirmed that the decision allows insurance for social pioneers as of January 1, 2022, at a rate of 9% of the minimum insurance wage, which amounts to 1,400 pounds per month. Thus, each pioneer will pay 126 pounds per month as the value of the insurance subscription, provided that the Ministry of Social Solidarity transfers the contributions to an authority. Social Insurance. In return, the state will contribute 168 pounds per month to each social worker, which is the employer’s share, bringing the total monthly contribution to 294 Egyptian pounds for each social worker. Al-Qabbaj pointed out that there are many sectors of irregular employment that have already entered the social insurance system in the recent period, such as members of the acting, musical, and plastic arts unions, in addition to categories of fishermen and workers in the field of waste recycling, in addition to workers in the construction sector, stressing the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s efforts to include all categories. Irregular workers in the social insurance system so that they can benefit from all the services and benefits provided by the state in the field of social protection, which is witnessing an unprecedented qualitative boom thanks to the social policies implemented by the government to establish the new republic that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi seeks to establish.