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SSC Assistant Director General for Insurances Nadia Rawabdeh said the expansion of coverage project is a national program that seeks to provide citizens with social protection.
The project seeks also to lay the foundation for a positive relationship between workers and employers, said Rawabdeh, adding that the project does not only have positive reflections on workers but also on employers, especially in small-sized institutions through what it offers of privileges to protect the insured.
In a workshop, organized by the SSC in cooperation with the GFJW at the SSC's headquarter in Irbid, Rawabdeh gave a detailed presentation on the concept of expanding coverage and the stages the project will go through.
She also outlined the benefit the SSC extends to its contributors and highlighted the SSC's strategic approach to expand coverage.
Rawabdeh also underlined the need to motivate employers and workers to take the initiative and subscribe in the SSC. This, she said, requires the support and interaction of all sectors, mainly the women sector.
Rawabdeh stressed that the SSC is fully ready to cooperate with the GFJW's branch in Irbid in all efforts to raise awareness on the issue, saying the SSC will launch a media campaign in Irbid to shed light on the corporation's plans to stress the importance of being covered by the SSC.
The campaign, she said, seeks also to entrench the concept of social security in the society.
It also aims to raise awareness on the SSC's benefits and privileges given to contributors, especially that the SSC's plan seeks to enhance social protection means in the Jordanian community, a matter that requires media campaigns to highlight this approach and encourage facilities and individuals to subscribe to the SSC.
GFJW President Nuha Maaytah stressed the readiness of the federation and all its affiliated societies to cooperate and extend support to render the expansion project a success.
She stressed also the readiness to take part in efforts to raise awareness and in media and field campaigns, stressing that the SSC's plan to expand coverage will positively reflect on Jordan and its citizens and will include new segments under the SSC's umbrella.
Maayatah stressed that all are partners in providing social security to citizens.
Director of SSC's Irbid branch Ibrahim Al Sakran said the SSC's plans to expand coverage and include all working force in the Kingdom is in line with strategic planning on part of the corporation that is keen on including all citizens under its umbrella, which will reflect positively in providing social protection to all segments of the society.
He added that the plans to expand coverage will make a national leap in quality at the socio-economic levels as the project will cover institutions where less than five workers are hired. Workers under this segment are the most in need for social protection such as those who work in quarries, carpentries, law offices, clinics, pharmacies, engineering offices, restaurants, among others.
By seeking to expand coverage, the SSC wants to enhance the social safety net and social protection in the Kingdom through reducing the gap in coverage by including new segments under the SSC's umbrella and providing them with all types of insurances such as those against old age, disability and death. In addition, to providing vocational disease and work injuries, a matter that will help secure a pension for the insured, and will help entrench the solidarity role of the SSC to realize more social equity and stability in the labor market and increase workers loyalty to their workplace.
The SSC is preparing to start the implementation of the second phase of its expansion project in the central district of Irbid city by making social security coverage obligatory to all facilities regardless of the number of workers as of Sunday, November 1.
This will pave the way for covering 18,000 facilities that all together employee 37,000 persons. The project will be implemented in the rest of the governorate's districts at a later stage and thus the SSC will provide new segments with social protection in implementation of the Royal directives in July 2007 to cover all citizens with the SSC's umbrella.
Irbid Governorate includes nine districts, the largest of which is the central district that is home to 50 per cent of the facilities and the workers in Irbid governorate. Implementation of the project will start in the central district and start gradually in other districts at a later stage.
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