SSC, Palestinian labour minister talk social protection cooperation

AMMAN — Acting Director General of the Social Security Corporation (SSC) Jadallah Khalayleh stressed the corporation's "full readiness" to provide its expertise and capabilities to help Palestine develop retirement and social security mechanisms and improve their benefits and procedures.

Khalayleh's remarks came during a meeting with an official Palestinian delegation, headed by Palestinian Minister of Labour Inas Attari, to review the SSC's experience in the fields of social protection, insurance, and programmes, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Khalayleh said the SSC has contacted the Palestine Pension Fund Authority (PPFA) over the past years to highlight its experiences in this field, stressing the corporation's "continued" efforts to boost and sustain its partnership with the Palestinian side and offer insurance and technical expertise.

Khalayleh added that the SSC has “kept pace” with developments regionally and globally and has made "remarkable" strides in social insurance and e-services areas to insured persons and retirees.

Attari said that the “brotherly and historic" bilateral relations are paving the way for "more effective" cooperation in the social protection field.

Expressing gratitude for the SSC's support and training provided under the previous partnership agreement with PPFA, she expressed hope to maintain implementation of the two bodies' memorandum of understanding to benefit from their "rich" expertise in the social insurance area.

After reviewing the SSC's "rich" experience, she said the main focus is setting the appropriate date for launching a Palestinian social security body, as well as the stages and factors that would facilitate its promotion drive and mechanisms for planning, implementation, and follow-up.