Pension programs

Keeping the required documentation to the minimum necessary is also important, as getting each piece of paperwork is likely to involve a whole new round of logistical and cost issues for applicants. Programs can do various other things to help keep the burden for applicants low. They can allow more easily available substitutes for formal documents when these are not readily available. Nepal s social pension program, for example, accepts... 

Concern about reduced work effort can lead policy makers to consider various features of program design and of the balance between social assistance of last resort, unemployment insurance, and contributory pension programs, but rarely implies abandoning social assistance as a policy tool. 

If a social pension program is to be targeted, the question arises as to whether to include the support in a more broadly based social assistance program, or if no such program ex-... 

TABLE 8.3 Characteristics of Sociai Pension Programs, Seiected Countries and Years... 

Chile Pensiones Asistenciales de Ancianidad y de Imalidez (Old-Age and Disability Pension Program)... 

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