Law on National Social Health Insurance System (2011)
Social Protection Act (2014)
77. A number of social protection schemes were introduced during this reporting period.
The table below shows the allowances entitled under social protection schemes. The
design of these schemes appears to be ad‐hoc, and not in an integrated manner94. This
is partly because of the lack of information on the poor and vulnerable groups95 .
Figure 16: Some of the Social Protection Schemes
Some of Social Protection Schemes
Scheme
Monthly allows entitled
Parent taking care of foster child
MRF 500 ($ 32)
Foster child
MRF 1000 ($ 64)
A Person With Disability
MRF 2000 ($ 129)
MRF 1000 ($64) per child and allowance entitled up
Single parent
to 3 children MRF 3000 ($ 194) only
Source: information shared by NSPA during recommendation follow up meetings held in 2013
78. Atoll/Island council play an administrative role in processing the forms, and anecdotal
evidence suggests that many atoll/island councils provide assistance to vulnerable
groups to fill up the necessary forms to apply for the social protection schemes.
Nonetheless it is important to understand the challenges faced by women in general in
accessing such schemes. Meanwhile National Social Protection Agency (NSPA) does not
have an estimate of how many persons in the country are eligible for the various social
schemes, there are no estimates on how many eligible beneficiaries remain outside the
domain of the schemes.96 Additionally the data published below is not available in sex
disaggregated manner thus it is difficult to provide information on women beneficiaries.
The table below shows the number of persons that received benefits under different
social protection schemes.
Figure 17: Number of persons covered under different social protection schemes
NUMBER OF PERSONS COVERED UNDER DIFFERENT SOCIAL PROTECTION SCHEMES, 2012
Repu
blic
Male'
HEALTH
INSURANCE
SCHEMES
Aasandha
Parent
Children
Parent
Children
275,175
3,025
5,520
44
45,101
937
1,606
12
SINGLE PARENT
ALLOWANCE
FOSTER PARENT
ALLOWANCE
EMERGENC
Y MEDICAL
WELFARE
Disability
Allowance
52
831
4,408
15
200
945
Atolls
230,074
2,088
3,914
32
37
631
3,463
Source: Department of planning (2013).Source: Department of Planning (2013). Statistical Year Book of Maldives
2013. Retrieved on December 10th 2014 from http://planning.gov.mv/yearbook2013/yearbook.html
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