This is my first bill, so it must be an important one.
Hopefully this will fuel some debate in the Senate.
Comprehensive Social Security Reform Act1. Any statutory act (law, section or article) relative to Social Security in Atlasia, i.e. to the intervention of the Federal Government aimed to protect its citizens from social risks, prior to this Act is hereby repealed.
2. The National Social Security Agency (NSSA) is hereby established.
3. Any responsibility and authority in the domain of Social Security shall be vested in the NSSA. Said domains may be further specified by appropriate legislation.
4. The NSSA shall be under the responsibility of the Department of Internal Affairs.
Section 1 : Administration1. The NSSA shall be administered by a deliberative body called Superior Council.
2. The Superior Council of the NSSA shall be composed as follows :
a) One third of its members shall be delegates of workers. They shall be democratically elected by every working or actively unemployed (see below) person. Labor Unions shall be responsible of organizing fair elections regularly.
b) One third of its members shall be delegates of employers, designed by the organizations representing them.
c) One third of representatives of the Federal Government, designed by the Department of Internal Affairs.
3. The Superior Council of the NSSA shall elect a presiding officer, adopt an internal ruling, and decide the frequency and the duration of their sessions.
4. The NSSA shall be divided into five separate Administrations, called :
a) The Health Insurance Administration
b) The Unemployment Insurance Administration
c) The Parenthood Insurance Administration
d) The Old Age Insurance Administration
e) The Minor Insurances Administration
5. The institutions administering each of previously cited Administration shall be designed by the Superior Council of the NSSA through procedures specified by it.
Section 2 : Budget1. The NSSA shall have its proper budget, independent from the Federal budget.
2. The budget of the NSSA shall serve to ensure the proper functioning of the Agency and the fulfillment of the tasks devolved to it through proper legislation.
3. The budget of the NSSA shall be managed by the Superior Council provided that its administration respects subsection 2. The Department of Internal Affairs is in charge of ensuring the respect of subsection 2.
4. Each of the five Administrations of the NSSA shall have its proper budget, which shall be a part of the global NSSA budget.
5. The budget of an Administration of the NSSA shall serve exclusively to fulfill the Administration's social task, by ensuring the compensation of persons as specified by legislation. The budget of an Administration of the NSSA shall be financed through the contributions of people eligible to the insurance program each Administration is responsible of.
6. The budget of the NSSA shall also comprise its Functioning funds. Said funds shall serve to ensure the proper functioning of the NSSA, by paying for the necessary infrastructures and remunerating its employees. Said funds shall be managed by the Superior Council of the NSSA.
7. The Federal Government shall be responsible for providing the Functioning funds to the NSSA. The Department of Internal Affairs shall be able to decide the amount of those funds. The Functioning funds devolved to the NSSA shall be subject to a vote in the Senate.
8. If the budget of one or more of the five administrations of the NSSA present a surplus, such surplus shall be attributed to a Balanced Budget Fund managed by the Superior Council of the NSSA.
9. If the budget of one or more of the five administrations of the NSSA presents a deficit, the Balanced Budget Fund shall be used to fill such deficit.
10. If the Balanced Budget Fund isn't sufficient to ensure a balanced budget in every administration, the Federal Government shall lend to the NSSA the money necessary for that. In such case, the Balanced Budget Funds shall be used to reimburse such loan as soon as possible.
Section 3 : Tasks1. The role of the NSSA is to compensate the victims of the social risks specified by legislation, through mechanisms and for an amount specified by legislation.
2. The social risks recognized by Atlasia are : illness, unemployment, parenthood, old age, handicap, working incidents, death of the spouse or the parent, catastrophe and excessive debt.
3. Each of the five Administrations of the NSSA shall be responsible to cover one or more of previously specified social risks.
Section 4 : Health Insurance1. The Health Insurance Administration shall be responsible to compensate the victims of illness and make their cure as easy as possible.
2. Any household shall be mandatorily registered to the Health Insurance Administration.
3. Any household registered to the Health Insurance Administration shall pay a contribution amounting to 2% of its salary and 5% of its other incomes.
4. Contributions shall be perceived directly by the Health Insurance Administration, monthly for salaries an annually for other incomes.
5. Households whose income is subject to the first two brackets of the Income tax as defined by the Fiscal Responsibility Act shall be exonerated from paying said contribution.
6. The Health Insurance Administration shall reimburse any purchase of a duly prescribed necessary medicine and any medically necessary services realized by a member of a registered household.
7. The administration of the Health Insurance Administration shall be responsible to establish a list of necessary medicines, as well as a list of medically necessary services. The list of medically necessary services shall include all those mentioned on section 1, subsection (b) of the Atlasian National Healthcare Act.
Section 5 : Unemployment Insurance1. The Unemployment Insurance Administration shall be responsible to compensate the victims of unemployment, to help them recovering a job and to ensure that recovering a job is economically beneficial to them.
2. Any employee or actively unemployed person shall be mandatorily registered to the Unemployment Insurance Administration.
3. To be deemed as "actively unemployed", a person shall meet following requirement :
a) Not exercising any remunerated job.
b) Actively researching a job, as defined under subsection 9.
4. The Unemployment Insurance Administration shall perceive contributions, amounting to 6% of a registered employee's salary. Such contributions shall be paid monthly, by half by concerned employee, and by half by the business employing it.
5. Any registered employee losing its job shall receive from the Unemployment Insurance Administration a monthly revenue amounting to :
a) 90% of the individual's previous salary during the first year following the loss of its job
b) 80% of the individual's previous salary during the second year following the loss of its job
a) 70% of the individual's previous salary during the third year following the loss of its job
a) 60% of the individual's previous salary during the fourth year following the loss of its job
a) 50% of the individual's previous salary after four years of unemployment
6. Notwithstanding subsection 5, no registered unemployed individual shall receive less than $600 per month, neither more than $4000 per month.
7. Any actively unemployed individual registered to the Unemployment Insurance Administration who had never been previously employed shall receive from the Unemployment Insurance Administration a monthly revenue of $600 per month.
8. The Unemployment Insurance Administration shall provide registered unemployed individual with reasonable employment proposals. To be considered as reasonable, those proposals shall meet following requirements :
a) A salary equivalent to at least 90% of the individual's current revenue provided by the Unemployment Insurance Administration.
b) A time necessary to reach workplace from the individual's home inferior to two hours.
c) A domain corresponding to the individual's qualifications.
9. Any registered unemployed individual refusing three successive reasonable employment proposals shall be considered as inactive and deregistered from the Unemployment Insurance Administration.
10. Any registered individual previously unemployed recovering a job with a salary inferior to 110% of the revenue he received as an active unemployed shall receive an allowance so that, added up with the salary, the total amounts to 110% of the revenue previously received.