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Social protection

خدمات ذات صلة/الحماية الاجتماعية

Social Protection

This section presents the efforts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support citizens at various stages of their lives to ensure that they enjoy a decent life. Achieving these efforts is possible due to the integration of social welfare systems, and its services include providing orphan care, juvenile care, and elderly care. This section also sheds light on support and preventive funding programs for job seekers, social support and funding programs, financial aid for people with disabilities, marriage loan for orphans, social and family loan, residential and housing support programs, COVID-19 support programs, pension & social insurance services and family protection services.

Social Welfare Systems

Social protection system was developed according to carefully considered strategies to achieve a healthy and possible society. It is developed through MHRSD efforts; to stabilize the citizens, improve their quality of life, overcome the risks facing them, and work to maintain their economic, social, and psychological support. The Kingdom has also taken care of developing preventive programs to enhance support for individuals and society in all its categories to meet their various needs, and it has developed care and rehabilitation programs for those in need of permanent assistance, to reach a stable, balanced, and equal community building. For more details, please click here.

الخدمات الاجتماعية

Childhood and Orphans

To maintain the rights of the child in general, and orphans in particular, and to ensure their care, the Childhood and orphans system was developed to ensure that General Department for Orphans Care (GDOC) and those of similar status set the necessary policies to take care of them and include them in education and reform through residential homes and institutions and to follow up their care within foster or friendly families.

Beneficiaries of Social Welfare Program
  • Widows
  • Divorced women
  • People with disabilities (PWDs)
  • The Elderly
  • Orphans
  • Children of unknown parentage
  • Unemployed persons
  • The poor and the needy
  • Affected by disasters and pandemics

برامج الحماية الاجتماعية

Compensation for unemployment

The program provided by the General Organization for Social Insurance and with the support of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development takes care of the Saudi worker and his family during the period of his unemployment due to circumstances beyond his control, so that the program works to bridge the transitional gap between two jobs by providing the minimum income to provide him and his family with a decent living in addition To provide the necessary training and help him find another job.

A program that supports job seekers to motivate them to enter the labor market, by providing a financial subsidy for a period of 15 months, starting with SAR 2,000, in addition to providing a range of training and employment services to help them find a job.

The program targets job seekers who are planning to join the labor market in the first two years of completing their education or their training, as well as those who have resigned or left their work for more than two years, and through Human Resources Development fund  E-Services you can register in the program.

"Doroob" is a national platform for e-training, and it is one of the initiatives of the Human Resources Development Fund "Hadaf" that seeks to develop the capabilities and raise the skills of the national forces, males and females, and provide them with job skills that support their obtaining a suitable job and settling in it according to the requirements of the Saudi labor market.

It is an on-the-job training program directed at Saudi male and female graduates from local and international universities. It aims to train them in governmental institutions and distinguished companies in the private sector, so that they can acquire the expertise and skills necessary to prepare them to participate in the labor market.

An academy established by the Human Resources Development Fund in 1440 AH with the aim of preparing and developing future national leaders from employees of the private sector for both sexes, and assuming them the leadership of establishments in the Kingdom. This is in order to achieve the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 (distinguished qualitative localization of leaders with the ability to plan creatively and innovate).

  • Nitaqat program

It is a program to motivate establishments to localize jobs, as its main idea is based on classifying entities that employ ten or more workers into four bands (red / yellow / green / platinum) according to the percentage of their job localization, so that the least localized entities are in the red and yellow bands, while The entities with the highest localization are classified in the green and platinum ranges, noting that the entity is evaluated by comparing its performance in localization with other entities of the same category.

  • Professions Localization Initiative

It is an initiative that supports raising job localization rates, as the initiative aims to localize professions based on the number of job seekers who are qualified for the profession in the event that sufficient jobs are available to cover them partially or completely in the entity affiliated with targeted labor offices, and when the establishment submits a request for a service from the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, it is stipulated that the localization rate in the entity affiliated with the targeted labor offices is higher or equal to the assumed localization rate. The targeted professions are updated and professions added to the service through ministerial decisions at specific and studied successive rates.

Support and Preventive Funding Programs

Productive Families Loan

A program that organizes the workflow of productive families and enables them economically to achieve self-sufficiency and improve their living frameworks by providing interest-free loans through SDB, such as obtaining Family Loan to encourage them to engage in businesses and professions on their own. To view the regulations for the work of productive families, click here.  

Citizen Account Program (the needy and the most needy)

A program designed in order to protect Saudi families from the expected direct and indirect impact of various economic reforms, which may cause an additional burden on some segments of society, by redirecting government benefits to beneficiaries in a manner that leads to rational consumption, and in a way that ensures that the sums reach beneficiaries directly. You can also register in Citizen Account Program and inquire about your eligibility status in the Citizen Account Program.

Social Support and Funding Programs

Social Loans

Financial and social loans are disbursed to help families who care for one or more people with disabilities, orphans, or the like, whose care has been entrusted to Financial social benefits are disbursed to subsidize families that take care of one or more PWDs, orphans, or the like, whose care has been entrusted to MHRSD Social Welfare and Development Agency, and they are:

  • PWDs Families

  • Foster families for orphans

  • Sponsorship period expired

  • Marriage

  • Providing wheelchairs for the disabled and equipping their cars

Security Pension

It is the amount that is paid to beneficiaries under the provisions of Social Security Law and is disbursed monthly to:

  • Orphans

  • Persons who have reached (60 years) or more

  • Persons unable to work permanently for any health reason

  • Persons unable to work temporarily for any health reason

  • Woman without a breadwinner

  • Unsupported family

You can also apply for the security pension service via link

Housing Support Programs

A service provided by Ministry of Municipal & Rural Affairs & Housing targeting male and female citizens, enabling them to register in the housing support request lists without any fees to verify their eligibility to obtain housing support and then determine the eligible ones. Citizens can also calculate the amount of support that will be provided by MoMRA with regard to ready housing units, housing units under construction and real estate loan by filling in the required data in Housing Support Calculator Service.

 

MoMRA worked in integration and partnership with NGOs and institutions to achieve housing support by providing housing units for needy and the most needy families in society, which are covered under the auspices of MHRSD.

Supportive housing programs and platforms

Pension & Social Insurance

Proceeding from the Kingdom’s keenness to provide a worthy standard of living for civil and military pensioners of Kingdom and to provide them with elements of social and economic security after they performed their role in serving the country for many years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has issued a number of pension regulations aimed at maintaining the rights of pensioners and beneficiaries of their families, and giving them an insurance coverage to achieve what they aspire to including a decent and stable standard of living.

Request Retirement Pension

This service enables contributors to request retirement pension payment.

Taqdeer Program

Taqdeer program is a national initiative presented by the General Organization for Social Insurance in appreciation of the retired men and women for their efforts in serving the country. The Taqdeer program is based on establishing important partnerships with many success partners to provide a variety of services to retired men and women and beneficiaries within the program’s tracks and objectives.

Masaken Program

It is a real estate financing program owned by the Public Pension Agency and managed by Dar Al Tamleek Company - based on the Murabaha formula compatible with the provisions of Islamic Sharia. The request and desire of the beneficiary (the employee / or retiree) and then sell it to the beneficiary in installments and at a specified profit margin.

Advantages and Offers Programs

Benefits, offers and discounts for retires.
 

Civil Pension

Regulates the pension rights of civil personnel who worked for government agencies and institutions and had an actual period of service that was spent on a grade in the state's general budget.

Civil Pension Services. Social insurance provides several services to civil pensioners via Civil Pension Services.

 Military Pension

It regulates the pension rights of military personnel who worked for the armed forces, military institutions and bodies in the country, and had an actual period of service.

For Military Pension services, click Military Pension Services.

Social Insurance (Public and Private Sector)

GOSI e-services were launched in General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) in 1393 AH (1973 AD) through the adoption of information technology to be an important part of the GOSI work, and these concepts developed over time to move GOSI to the stage we are witnessing today in which GOSI provides all its services to contributors and customers automatically. GOSI e-services application was designed to enhance the vision of GOSI in achieving social insurance with high efficiency and effectiveness, in addition to creating full integration with the other e-government services system for online registration at GOSI.

COVID-19 Support Programs

Community Fund

A cash donation fund established in response to the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, in partnership with MHRSD and General Authority for Awqaf (GAA), according to a specific mission of providing general services due to the pandemic, including relief and community services. The Fund also receives contributions from individuals and institutions and implements initiatives through accredited NGOs to reach beneficiaries and verify their needs.

التقاعد والتأمينات الاجتماعية

Civil Pension

Regulates the pension rights of civil personnel who worked for government agencies and institutions and had an actual period of service that was spent on a grade in the state's general budget.

Civil Pension Services. Social insurance provides several services to civil pensioners via Civil Pension Services.

الدعم والحماية الاجتماعية

Injury and sickness compensation for the worker according to the labor system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The employer or his representative reports the injury by entering the insurance website online in the new injury field, filling in the required data, and then referring the injured person to the treatment body contracting with the social insurance.

  • Occupational disability

If the percentage of disability is (50%) to (99%), then the injured person is considered the owner of a partial disability benefit, which is calculated on the basis of multiplying the percentage of this disability by the permanent total disability benefit that he could have obtained if his disability was total. Partial disability is (55%) and his average wage is (2000) riyals, so the partial disability return equals = 55% x 2000 = (1100) riyals.

  • Non-occupational disability

The worker is entitled to receive a non-occupational disability pension under the following conditions:

1. That the state of disability occurs before the contributor reaches the age of sixty, and that he is employed under the scheme.

2. To have a subscription period of no less than (12) consecutive months or (18) intermittent months.

3. The state of disability must be proven by the competent medical committees within (18) months as a maximum from the date of the end of the contribution period.

 

This service allows reporting a work injury that occurred to one of the contributors to the designated treatment facility or to the competent insurance office

This service allows submitting a request for payment of occupational disability benefits

This service allows submitting a request for payment of non-occupational disability benefits

This service allows the heirs' dues to be paid

Family Protection

The entity that protects people from domestic violence in any form of exploitation, such as physical, psychological, sexual abuse, or any threats committed by a person against another, thus exceeding the limits of his guardianship, authority or responsibility because of their family relationship, maintenance relationship, sponsorship, guardianship or dependency on living. For more details about General Department of Family Protection, click here.

 

Family Protection Services or Filling a Report:

The Ministry contributes to raising the level of protection laws and its mechanism, and works to raise awareness among members of society about abuse and its consequences and to address behavioral phenomena in society. You can also view Integrated Guide to Domestic Violence, its forms, and measure its severity

Governmental support and assistance provided to children in the Kingdom

The developed social security program supports families and groups most in need, and this includes the support provided to the family in the event of a change in the number of its members and the addition of new children to the program, so that the amount of support provided to the family increases in the social security program, the food support program, the electricity subsidy program ... and other programs, according to the increase in the number of children added to the family in the developed social security program.

Support and assistance is also provided to children with disabilities through the registration service in day care centers, which aims to improve the quality of children with disabilities and their families, integrate them socially, develop the child’s performance in skills, overcome difficulties and behaviors, and become self-reliant through a professional rehabilitation entity.

Maternity leaves and salaries for working women according to the labor system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Working women have the right to apply for maternity leave by applying for the sick leave service on the Masar platform.
  • A working woman, in the event that she does not obtain all her rights in maternity leave, can apply to the grievance service to file a complaint or grievance.
  • A working woman has the right to maternity leave for the four weeks preceding the probable date of childbirth, and the six weeks following it. The probable date of childbirth is determined by the facility doctor, or by virtue of a medical certificate certified by a health authority. Employment of women is prohibited during the six weeks immediately following childbirth.
  • The employer must pay the working woman, during her absence from her work during maternity leave, the equivalent of half of her wages, if she has had one year or more service with the employer, and the full wages if her service period reaches three years or more on the day the leave begins. The wages shall not be paid to her during her annual leave. Ordinary leave if she has benefited in the same year from maternity leave with full pay, and half of her wages shall be paid during the annual leave if she has benefited in the same year from maternity leave with half pay.
  • The employer shall provide medical care to the working woman during pregnancy and childbirth.
  • The working woman has the right, when she returns to her work after maternity leave, to take a period or periods of rest for the purpose of breastfeeding her newborn, the total of which does not exceed an hour per day, in addition to the rest periods granted to all workers, and this period or periods shall be calculated from the actual working hours. It results in a pay cut
  • A working woman whose husband dies is entitled to leave with full pay for a period of no less than fifteen days from the date of death.

Ministry Services

An that enables persons with disabilities who are registered with the Ministry and whose disability has been assessed to apply for financial aid for

Beneficiaries
Individuals
people with disabilities

An electronic service that enables the users of Social Insurance Pensions and their dependents enrolled in the system Social Insurance Pensions from

Beneficiaries
Individuals
Nonprofit entities
deserves support

An electronic service that enables users to file grievances, follow up on them, and respond to them by the concerned authorities. It also allows

Beneficiaries
Individuals

An electronic service that enables government agencies to promote their employees, either through offering and differentiation, or through exceptional

Beneficiaries
Individuals
Governmental entities

​The "My Employment Data" digital platform enables civil service employees and human resources specialists to take advantage of the latest

Beneficiaries
Individuals

The Citizen Account Program was established to protect Saudi families from the expected direct and indirect impact of various economic reforms, which

Beneficiaries
Individuals
Women
convinced
deserves support

It is a website under the supervision of the Volunteer Work Platform, in which organizations that provide volunteer opportunities are linked to

Beneficiaries
Individuals
Women
youths

It is a website under the supervision of the Volunteer Work Platform, in which organizations that provide volunteer opportunities are linked to

Beneficiaries
Governmental entities

It is possible through the portal (Client page): to submit a complaint or request to communicate with His Excellency the Minister. It is a portal

Beneficiaries
Businessmen
Individuals
Governmental entities
الزائرين
Nonprofit entities

​This service enables government agencies to identify the current status of their employees (whether on the job or not on the job) and the status of

Beneficiaries
Governmental entities

​In order to activate the concept of electronic transactions with government agencies and their integration with related systems, the Job Transactions

Beneficiaries
Individuals

Regulation and Procedures

FAQs

How do I know if my establishment is obligated to implement the Wages Protection System?

You can identify whether your establishment is obligated to implement WPS by following the official sources and accounts of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

Can I upload the Wages Protection files through the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development E-services website?

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development was the previous destination for uploading wages protection files. But now you can only upload the wage protection files through the Compliance System in Mudad..

What are the objectives of the Wages Protection Service?

The service aims to improve the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee. And it ensures that the employees' salaries are paid within the terms and conditions agreed upon in the contract that guarantees the employees' rights.

What is the legislator for the Wages Protection Service (WPS)?

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

What's the Wages Protection Service (WPS)?

WPS is a program launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in 2013. It enables establishments to upload their employees' wage files, monitor their compliance percentage and violations, and address justifications. The system targets all private establishments and progressively commits them through specific stages.

May the employer withhold the passport of the employee?

In accordance with Article (6) of the Implementing Regulations of the Saudi Labor Law, the employer may not withhold the passport, residence or medical insurance card of the non- Saudi workers.

Is there a feedback provided in the user interface if an error occurs?

Yes, the portal and its affiliated systems provide feedback directed towards the required action in the user interface in the event of any error, and this has been clarified through the general guide for platforms

Can users access the list of his previous transactions or transactions in the portal?

Yes, the portal and its affiliated systems enable the beneficiary to access a list of his previous operations or transactions in the portal, and this has been clarified through the general guide to the platforms

Is it possible to save a transaction for a specific service initiated through the portal and access it later?

Yes, the portal and its affiliated systems enable the beneficiary to save a transaction for a specific service that was initiated through the portal and to access it later. This has been clarified through the general guide to the platforms

Can companies modify their private data online

Yes, the portal and its affiliated systems enable the user to modify their private data via the Internet, and this has been clarified through the general guide to the platforms

Last Modified Date: 2024/10/09 - 09:17, 06/Rabi’ Al-Thani/1446 - 12:17 Saudi Arabia Time

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