Social security for informal sector

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THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) says its social security scheme targeted for the informal sector will be operational next year.
The administrator of Zimbabwe’s mandatory state pension scheme says more than five million citizens are threatened with old age poverty due to a social security coverage gap in the country.

An International Labour Organisation (ILO) convention in 1952 set minimum standards for social security covering such areas as unemployment benefit, medical care, maternity, sickness and family allowances, all of which are not covered in Zimbabwe.