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5- Basic and Security Pensions
The Great Jamhirya has devoted overriding interest to the
provision of full-fledged social protection and care as endorsed
in the Social Security Law no (13) for 1980 which is believed to
be one of the most up-to-date and distinctive laws in the area of
social security, having emphasized in Article (1) that "Social
security is a right the community guarantees for all citizens. It is
also protection for non-native residents."
The same Article has made it clear that social security involves
a system specifying any measure that is intended to provide
protection and care in cases of old age, disability, illness, work
injury, occupation maladies, loss of guardian, disruption of
livelihoods, pregnancy and birth-giving, family burdens as well
as in cases of disasters, emergencies and death. Social security
also covers social care to those who are not sponsored be they
children, boys, girls, people with special needs, the disabled, the
elderly and juvenile delinquents. It also relates to industrial
security measures and procedures, handling with care cases of
work injury and occupation maladies, rehabilitation of patients,
the injured and the disabled. Family is well attended to through
extension of material and moral assistance based on mentioned
above legislation.
Law no (16) for 1985 on basic pension for citizens (Article 1),
the right to basic pension without paying subscriptions in return
by those eligible for it, or in other words the protection system
in this manner is a pension rather than remuneration system, i.e.
the beneficiary of a basic pension fund obtains money that is
enough to secure for him a decent life even though he does not
pay any subscriptions.
Basic pension entitlement is extended to several brackets
defined in the law such as: the elderly, the disabled, widows,
orphans, families of the provisionally imprisoned, those
executing court judgments as well as families of the lost, the
absent, the captive, and the released after serving their sentence