250. The main fund financing social security expenditures, the Social Insurance Fund, was planned to cover expenses from collected contributions.

Tasks in the field of the social insurance of farmers are performed by the Fund for Agricultural Social Insurance (KRUS).

249. Most social security expenditures are financed from the central budget and from special funds of this budget the Social Insurance Fund, the Pension Fund In 1993 the Social Insurance Fund financed the majority of pension benefits and non agricultural allowances and the Pension Fund financed agricultural pension benefits.

234. Child care allowances are paid from the Social Insurance Fund.

237. Care allowances are financed from the Social Insurance Fund.

Farmers apos benefits are financed from the farmers apos social insurance contributory fund (the Agricultural Fund).

Disability pensions and survivor apos s pensions are paid from the Social Insurance Fund.

243. Social insurance benefits for farmers are paid from the contributory Farmers apos Social Insurance Fund.

The protection will be covered by means of the establishment of a collective fund separated from the existing social security fund.

178. Similarly, the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) has been given responsibility for managing the alimony and maintenance payments guarantee fund.

Pension disability insurance is among the basic social welfare and basic social security rights, which are acquired based upon work.

197. Disability pensions are financed from the Social Insurance Fund and, in the case of farmers, from the Farmers apos Fund.

182. The pension benefits of workers and their families and other insured groups are financed from the Social Insurance Fund and in the case of farmers from the Agricultural Fund.

and the Labour Fund. The first two funds finance most pension expenditures and social insurance allowances.

The right to pensions and disability insurance is considered one of the basic social rights and social security elements for citizens.

A social long term care insurance has been introduced under the aegis of the sickness funds.

All expenditures in respect of the described family benefits are covered by the Social Insurance Fund.

The artists apos social fund transfers the contributions to the insurance funds (Federal Insurance Institute for Salaried Employees, local sickness fund or substitute fund, long term care insurance fund) which provide the regular benefits for artists and publicists if the contingency arises.

240. The social insurance benefits referred to earlier in this report (with the exception of sickness allowances for workers in socialized establishments) are financed from a separate Social Insurance Fund.

The range of socially insured persons was systematized, i.e., persons subject to social insurance were divided into two categories persons subject to compulsory social insurance and persons who joined the state pension insurance system on voluntary basis.

Allowances and other social insurance benefits

The above benefits are administered by the State Social Security Institute under the Social Security Act 1993.

The payment of pensions is financed by social insurance contribution payments (the state social insurance special budget).

Pursuant to the Law On State Social Insurance, the Law On Social Security, the Law On Social Tax, the Law On State Pensions, the Law On Compulsory Social Insurance Against Unemployment, the Law On Insurance Against Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases the receipt of the maternity benefit does not restrict receiving of any other benefit or social insurance services.

In addition, the social security funds make loans for the improvement, construction or purchase of housing.

Expenditures for rehabilitation benefits and compensatory allowances are covered from the Social Insurance Fund.

The payment of disability pensions is financed from the social insurance contribution payments (the state social insurance special budget.

The payment of survivor's pensions is financed from the social insurance contribution payments (the state social insurance special budget).

Upon taking the pregnancy and childbirth leave, the person is granted a state social insurance benefit the maternity benefit if the said person is socially insured in accordance with the Law On State Social Insurance.

207. Survivor apos s pensions for workers and other groups (except farmers) are paid out of the Social Insurance Fund.

In 1994, the State Social Insurance Fund was established to administer the social tax and to provide social services, and was transformed into a non profit organisation, public joint stock company State Social Insurance Agency in 1998.

Mothers affiliated to the IKA TEAM (Social Insurance Fund Employee's Supplementary Insurance Fund, the largest Insurance Fund in Greece) who give birth after 1 1 2003 or, if the right is not exercised by mothers, then fathers, can have a fictitious insurance period recognized, in order to fulfill the conditions for a minimum insurance period and be entitled to pension rights.

The Law on Social Welfare The Law on Health Care The Law on Health Insurance The Law on Pension Disability Insurance.

As a result, the following improvements of the welfare system were achieved the balance of the social insurance budget, the administration of the social insurance fund servicing the social insurance clients the quality of the formulation and analysis of the social policy the provision of information to the Saeima, the Government and the population about social policy developments in the country.

Average social insurance cash benefits, 1989 1994

The second tier of the pension system the compulsory funded State pension scheme is based on the principle of investing individual social insurance contribution payments, providing that part of the person's social insurance contribution payments for old age pensions will be invested.

186. The long term care insurance, which is the fifth pillar of the social insurance scheme, is financed from contributions paid by employers and employees, pensioners and pension insurance funds on the basis of solidarity.

The revenue of this Fund comes from social insurance contributions and complementary State budget subsidies.

Expenditures for sickness allowances are covered by the socialized establishments for workers of these establishments, and by the Social Insurance Fund for workers in the private sector and other insured persons.

Social insurance costs were introduced as a compulsory payment to the social insurance budget at the same time a definite category of the population was offered the option of making contribution payments for pension insurance on voluntary basis.

257. Because social security financing from the State budget and from the special funds is undergoing certain changes, In endnote 12 changes in the scope of benefits financed by pension funds in 1985 and 1993 were presented.

By act of law, everyone who was insured with a social insurance fund of the former GDR was covered by the statutory health insurance in the new Länder.

In accordance with the Law On State Social Insurance, social insurance is compulsory also for persons who receive maternity benefits.

218. There are two sources of financing of these benefits, namely, the Social Insurance Fund and establishments.

KRUS functions through a network of regional branches and local units.