Automatic settlement of pension rights...

The National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF) is now able to grant old-age pensions to beneficiaries who meet the eligibility criteria without any prior application. This is a revolution in Cameroon's social security system, designed to reduce bureaucracy and improve the quality of services.

Pension processing is much more than a technical improvement. In the past, the procedure for obtaining an old-age pension required submitting a file with supporting documents that made it possible to follow the worker's career.

Thanks to the systematic storage of data on social insured persons throughout their working lives, the NSIF now has the information it needs to initiate the payment process without any prior administrative steps on the part of the insured person. Once the insured person has met the conditions for retirement, his or her pension rights are immediately generated based on his/her contributions and employment history. This revolution has been made possible by the technological updating of the NSIF's management tools, which has made it possible to avoid human error, improve the efficiency of the service and guarantee the transparent and smooth distribution of pensions.

This reform is a real godsend for the insured persons. Computerisation guarantees that each insured person will receive his or her rights without delay. What's more, users will be able to follow changes in their situation online and will have access to clear information on the amount of their pension. This system also avoids the inconvenience of exclusion due to late applications.

In addition, the computerisation of the procedure provides better security for the management of funds and reduces the risk of administrative errors, while at the same time reducing the workload relating to the manual checking of files.

The system will help to reduce social inequalities and provide financial security for the elderly by improving access to pensions. By promoting the dematerialisation of administrative procedures, this reform is part of a general drive to modernise the public service and create a social management model more suited to the needs of the century ahead.