Actuarial Notes

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2018

By Social Security Administration · 2018 · SSA Publication No. 13-11801

Study guide: Exam RET-101

The first volume of the 2018-2019 series Social Security Programs Throughout the World, reporting on the countries of Europe. It describes each country's social security programs from laws and regulations in force in January 2018, with comparative tables on program types, mandatory old-age income security, demographic statistics and contribution rates. The Social Security Administration released it in September 2018, researched jointly with the International Social Security Association.

On the syllabus

  • Exam RET-101 — RET101-110-25; Outcomes 1b, 2b. The SOA course strategy guide says the reading is the introduction to this document about European social insurance programs, and that essentially the same introduction is used in the guides to other regions.

Preface

Guide to Reading the Country Summaries

  • Information Sources
  • Types of Programs
    • Employment-Related
    • Universal
    • Means-Tested
    • Other Types of Programs
  • Format of Country Summaries
    • Old Age, Disability, and Survivors
    • Sickness and Maternity
    • Work Injury
    • Unemployment
    • Family Allowances

Tables

  • 1 Social security programs, by country and type
  • 2 Mandatory old-age income security programs, by country and type
  • 3 Demographic and other social security-related statistics, by country, 2016–2018
  • 4 Insured and employer contribution rates, by country and program type, 2018

Country Summaries

  • Information Sources
  • 1
  • Types of Programs
  • Employment-Related
  • 2
  • Universal
  • 2
  • Means-Tested
  • 3
  • Other Types of Programs
  • 3
  • Format of Country Summaries
  • Old Age, Disability, and Survivors
  • 4
  • Sickness and Maternity
  • 8
  • Work Injury
  • Unemployment
  • Family Allowances
  • Tables
  • 1.  Social security programs, by country and type
  • 2.  Mandatory old-age income security programs, by country and type
  • 3.  Demographic and other social security-related statistics, by country, 2016–2018
  • 4.  Insured and employer contribution rates, by country and program type, 2018
  • Country Summaries
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Austria
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Guernsey
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Italy
  • Jersey
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Sources