Assessing Benefit Portability for International Migrant Workers : A Review of the France-Morocco Bilateral Social Security Agreement
The portability of social benefits is gaining importance given the increasing share of individuals working at least part of their life outside their home country. Bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) are considered a crucial approach to est...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/313201484110324776/Assessing-benefit-portability-for-international-migrant-workers-a-review-of-the-France-Morocco-bilateral-social-security-agreement http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25868 |
| Summary: | The portability of social benefits is
gaining importance given the increasing share of individuals
working at least part of their life outside their home
country. Bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) are
considered a crucial approach to establishing portability,
but the functionality and effectiveness of these agreements
have not yet been investigated; thus, importance guidance
for policy makers in migrant-sending and migrant-receiving
countries is missing. To shed light on how BSSAs work in
practice, this document is part of a series providing
information and lessons from studies of portability in four
diverse but comparable migration corridors: Austria-Turkey,
Germany-Turkey, Belgium-Morocco, and France-Morocco. A
summary policy paper draws broader conclusions and offers
overarching policy recommendations. This report looks
specifically into the working of the France-Morocco
corridor. Findings suggest that the BSSA between France and
Morocco is broadly working well, with only a few substantive
issues in the area of pensions and the task of implementing
access to health care for retired migrants under the new
BSSA effective as of 2011. The pension issues cluster around
access to survivor’s pensions in view of civil law
differences of addressing divorces and repudiation and the
non-exportability of minimum pension guarantees in line with
European Union legislation and lacking reciprocity. Process
issues around information provision in Morocco and
automation of information exchange to speed up benefit
processing are recognized. |
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