Papel da pensão de reforma na integração social dos beneficiários: caso pensão de reforma dos funcionários do aparelho do Estado na cidade de Maputo - 1999-2004”

Abstract

Social Security in Mozambique has raised debates and discussions not only at Government and civil society level, but also at the level of the academic community, due to the problems related to Social Security Systems, which are framed in the formal labour market, and some social assistance programmes for groups considered vulnerable. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to understand how the Pension Fund contributes to the social integration of its beneficiaries in Maputo City in the period 1999-2004. This study starts from the observation of the delay in the triangular process of centralized procedures in the three institutions (Employer, Department of Social Welfare and Pensions and Administrative Court) that initiate the payment of the pension; the irregularities that occur in the payment of the retirement pension to the beneficiaries, even for those who have already been receiving it. These factors are allied to the fact that when civil servants retire, they become poorer than when they were working. Therefore, the sense of integration in the social system seems to us a paradox between the results obtained by the institution that manages the retirement pension and the beneficiaries of the pension, since the latter advocates that the role of the retirement pension is to contribute to the integration of the beneficiaries in the social system. These findings raised the following question: ''Does the Retirement Pension contribute to the social integration of its beneficiaries in Maputo City?" Given the following hypotheses raised: The Retirement Pension has a role for the social integration of the The operation of the Retirement Pension in the Department of Social Welfare and Pensions guarantees the social integration of its beneficiaries".

(TRADUÇAO NOSSA)