National Social Security Authority

Services

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), constituted and established for the provision of social security can be defined as instituting public policy measures intended to protect an individual in life situations or conditions in which his/her livelihood and well being may be threatened, such as those engendered by sickness, workplace injuries, unemployment, invalidity, old age, retirement and death.

It is based on the principle of social solidarity and pooling of resources and risks, involving drawing of savings from periods of employment, earnings and good health to provide for periods of unemployment, old age, invalidity and death.

At the moment NSSA is administering two schemes: Pension and Other Benefits Scheme and Accident Prevention and Workers’ Compensation Scheme, although, in an endeavor to provide a more comprehensive social security package for the Zimbabwean society, groundwork for the introduction of more schemes is underway.

The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) was created by an Act of Parliament: The National Social Security Act (Chapter 17:04) of 1989.The Act empowers the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare to establish social security schemes for the provision of benefits to all employees. NSSA is mandated to administer every scheme and fund that is established in terms of this Act.