PASI’S goal is to ensure social welfare

The Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) is working to implement strategic goals, including improving the adequacy of benefits, expanding social protection coverage, improving the services system to enhance its sustainability, and raising the efficiency of investment performance.

It has an ambitious strategy to keep pace with the aspirations of the new Basic Law promulgated by the Royal Decree No 6/2021 and its principles seeking to continue with the efforts to ensure a sustainable and better future.

A PASI report issued on Wednesday said, “The Authority works to improve the efficiency of revenue and expenditure, enhancing the digital culture of society, increasing the level of knowledge of social protection, enhancing the level of productivity, as well as enhancing the level of technical readiness, and strengthening the system of good governance.”

The report emphasised citizens’ right to work and said, “work is a right and an honour, and every citizen has the right to practise the work he chooses for himself within the limits of the law. No citizen may be compelled to work except following the law, and to perform a public service for a specified period, and fair remuneration. The state enacts laws that protect the worker and the employer, regulates the relationship between them, provides conditions for security, safety and occupational health, based on social principles (Article 15) in the Basic Law of the State, which emphasises the importance of social insurance.”

Commenting on the new PASI strategy, Salem bin Abdullah al Rahbi, Director of Planning, indicated that building a new phase that commensurates with the level of national and international aspirations comes in continuation of the efforts of the Authority since 2009, and towards implementing the principles of sound strategic planning following the best internationally available practices.

Work is a right and an honour, and every citizen has the right to practise the work he chooses for himself within the limits of the law

PASI REPORT