Decision on the fourth item on the agenda: Update concerning the after-service health insurance Funding of the ASHI liability

Record of decisions | 15 March 2016

Decision on the fourth item on the agenda: Update concerning the after-service health insurance

Funding of the ASHI liability

The Governing Body requested the Director-General to:

(a) ensure the ILO’s continued participation in the UN after-service health insurance (ASHI) Working Group in its study of further options to increase efficiency and contain costs and in its development of specific proposals;

(b) collaborate with other UN organizations in exploring the practicability and effects of introducing into the Staff Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) Regulations and Administrative Rules a requirement for former officials insured by the SHIF and their dependents, who reside in Switzerland, France and the United States to be covered under the national health insurance schemes of those countries;

(c) present to the 329th Session of the Governing Body (March 2017) possible options for the establishment of an ASHI reserve, including specific measures for increasing efficiency and containing costs, while examining the positive impact of such measures in reducing ASHI liabilities for the ILO.

(Document GB.326/PFA/4, paragraph 39, as amended by the Governing Body.)