1. Health care: guarantee that health systems are established to provide
adequate access to health services for all.
2. Sickness: Cash benefits should be provided to those incapable of
working due to ill-health to cover periods of loss of earnings. Persons
suffering from long periods of sickness should qualify for disability
benefits.
3. Old age: appropriate measures should be taken to establish social
security schemes that provide benefits to older persons, starting at a
specific age, to be prescribed by national law.
4. Unemployment: benefits to cover the loss or lack of earnings due to the
inability to obtain or maintain suitable employment.
5. Employment injury: the protection of workers who are injured in the
course of employment or other productive work.
6. Family and child support: the provision of adequate family support,
particularly for children, the aged and people living with disabilities.
7. Maternity: Paid maternity leave should be granted to all women, and
benefits should be provided for an adequate period.
8. Disability: the provision of adequate income support to persons with
disabilities who, owing to disability or disability-related factors, have
temporarily lost, or received a reduction in, their income, have been
denied employment opportunities or have a permanent disability.
e. Survivors and orphans: States should guarantee to widows and orphans adequate
benefits and assistance under social security schemes, including ensuring that they
are entitled to inherit property from their husbands, parents or other relatives.
f. Ensure that qualifying conditions for benefits are reasonable, proportionate and
transparent. The withdrawal, reduction or suspension of benefits should be
circumscribed, based on grounds that are reasonable, subject to due process, and
provided for in national law.
g. Ensure that where a social security scheme requires contributions, these are
stipulated in advance. The direct and indirect costs and charges associated with
making contributions must be affordable for all, and must not compromise the
realisation of other Charter rights.
Vulnerable Groups, Equality and Non-discrimination
h. Establish social safety nets to ensure that members of vulnerable and
disadvantaged groups are able to survive even in times of severe resource
constraints, including in periods of economic recession.
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Ensure no direct or indirect discrimination in social security schemes on any of the
prohibited grounds of discriminationxxxv particularly through the imposition of
unreasonable eligibility conditions or lack of adequate access to information.