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Pensão Social—Social Pension
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Pensão Social—Social Pension
Cape Verde
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date 2006 (under the National Centre of Social Pensions) 1
Programme objectives
To provide basic income security for elderly citizens,
people with disabilities and poor children with disabilities. 1
Programme type
Unconditional cash transfer
Programme components
In addition to the monthly pension, beneficiaries have access
to the Mutual Health Fund, which provides allowances for
medicine purchases and a funeral grant. 1
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods Means test 1
Target areas
Nationwide
Target groups
Elderly people (over 60 years old), people with disabilities,
and children with disabilities living in poor families. 1
Eligibility criteria
Applicants for the pension must fill out a form for identification and
provide basic documentation. Applicants must be Cape Verde citizens
living below the national official poverty line (CVE4,123 in 2007) and not
covered by any other social security scheme.
Eligibility reassessment (if any) Social workers verify the conditions for selection of applicants
in person and a web-based application manages all the
processes and procedures. 1
Type of benefits
Cash
Amount of benefits
Monthly payment of CVE5,000 (around USD65); beneficiaries also
have access to the Mutual Health Fund, which subsidises medicine
purchases of up to CVE2,500 per year and provides a funeral
allowance of CVE7,000. 1
Payment/delivery frequency
Monthly
Benefit delivery mechanism The pensions are paid through local post offices. 1
Benefit recipients
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 46 per cent of the elderly population 1
Programme expenditure 0.4 per cent of GDP 1
Institutions and agencies involved Ministry of Youth, Employment and Human Resources Development
of Cape Verde (supervision); National Centre of Social Pensions
(CNPS; management) 1
Monitoring and evaluation
CNPS manages the social pensions autonomously. 1
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 167: Pensão Social—Social Pension
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