Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1972)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct requests, which read as follows:

  Part VIII of the Convention (Maternity benefit). The Committee again asks the Government to indicate which provisions of the law establish payments in full during four months of the pregnancy.

  Part VII (Family benefits), Article 44. In reply to the Committee’s previous comments the Government refers to sections 12 and 13 of the Regulations on invalidity, old age and death of 29 July 1995. The Committee observes that these provisions lay down the requirements for entitlement to a benefit for orphans and not the contingency covered by Article 40 of Part VII of the Convention which covers "responsibility for the maintenance of children as prescribed". This constitutes a benefit which has to be given to living insured persons, with dependent children, protected by the social security scheme. The Committee therefore again asks the Government to indicate whether the total value of the benefits granted to the persons protected (i.e. the total amount of the periodical cash payments provided to families in respect of dependent children, as well as the cost of supplying food and clothing in the various rural centres) represents, in accordance with Article 44: (a) either 3 per cent of the wage of an ordinary adult male labourer, as determined in accordance with the rules laid down in Article 6 of this instrument, multiplied by the total number of children of all persons protected; (b) or 1.5 per cent of the said wage multiplied by the total number of children of all residents.

  Part XIV (Miscellaneous provisions), Article 76, paragraph 1(b)(ii) of the Convention (in conjunction with Article 36). The Committee again asks the Government to provide the information required under Article 65 (Titles I, II and IV) or 66 (Titles I, II and IV) of the report form adopted by the Governing Body, with regard to Employment injury benefit (Part VI of the Convention).