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The Mutual Association of Solidarity Services has paid RD$844 million to the TSS for affiliates of the SDSS

Amussol serves as the virtual employer of informal workers

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The Mutual Association of Solidarity Services has paid RD$844 million to the TSS for affiliates of the SDSS
SD. Law 87 - 01 on the Dominican System of Social Security (SDSS) establishes three special regimes of coverage for the citizens which are: the Contributive (Payroll - deduction), the Subsidized and the Subsidized Contributive. The latter, which includes independent professionals and informal workers, who represent more than 56% of the total workforce of the country, has not been able to be applied in spite of the legislation which dates from 2001.

Different explanations have been offered regarding why the subsidized contributive regime has not been applied, among which they recall the lack of resources on the part of the State and of a study which shows the feasibility or not of this plan of inclusion.

Faced with this lack of social protection for the informal workers, who continue to be the majority in the Dominican Republic, the Autonomous Confederation of Classist Syndicates (CASC), through the Mutual Association of Solidarity Services (Amussol), since 2005 has served as the virtual employer for part of this great mass of citizens who work independently and who obtained monthly incomes above that required by the SDSS in order to be included in their protection.

So, in this way, Amussol has been able to include in the SDSS some 14,820 workers, and they have 52,277 affiliates, and have paid from 2005 until 2014 nearly RD$1,000,000,000 pesos to the Social Security Treasury.

According to an Amussol bulletin, in 2014 this entity registered 111 new organizations that are paying into the SDSS and 847 merchants of the Solidarity Program were affiliated to Social Security.

In addition, they show that between the subsidies delivered in 2014 to the Social Security beneficiaries through Amussol they emphasize: RD$585,000 paid to beneficiaries of the program "Live Tranquil", 45 maternity and breast-feeding subsidies, 22 subsidies for work related accidents, 205 judicial assistance services and 266 for common illnesses.

These services, according to the President of the CASC, Gabriel del Rio Doñe, reflect the support of the union sector to the transition from informality to formality in the economy, because many of the workers and professionals that are affiliated informally to the SDSS are helped by Amussol to become formal and contribute independently to the program.

The union leader maintains his hopes that the SDSS continues to advance and in this sense he says: "there is not the least doubt that in 2015 it will be decisive for the development and the sustainability of the Dominican System of Social Security."

Law establishes period of validity

The Law 87 - 01 on the Dominican System of Social Security establishes how the contributive subsidized regime, which should have entered into force with the National Health Insurance two years after the legislation went into effect, would protect professionals and independent technicians as well as workers who are self-employed with average incomes, equal to or superior to the minimum national wage, by contributions by the worker and a state subsidy to supply the lack of the employer.