Innovation and governance of the Algerian social security system; Reality and challenges facing multiple transitions

Résumé

The Algerian social security system covers now more than 80% of citizens; the intervention of this system was up to 300 billion dinars as health expenditure (nearly 3 billion US dollars) in 2014.

We aim through this paper to achieve the following objectives: to bring out the main challenges of social insurance in Algeria, in a context of economic, social and epidemiological transition; draw the right lessons from the reforms implemented in the Algerian social security system, in order to improve the management of these funds; propose innovative solutions that can improve the governance of social security funds.

Among the results of this research: free healthcare is a real threat to the financial equilibrium of the National Fund for Social Insurance of salaried workers/ NSIFSW in the coming years; early retirement is another threat to the financial equilibrium of the NSIFSW; the life expectancy of Algerians is now around the age of 75, this makes it possible to push back the retirement age beyond 60, in order to have more contributions, to cover new risks and pathologies of this category of age.