Cmr'ians to benefit immensely from CNPS

After several years of complaints, notaries, lawyers and other employees of the liberal professions can now benefit from the services of social security in Cameroon. Similarly, stakeholders in the informal sector, in which officially operates more than 51% of the operators of the Cameroonian economy, can now enjoy the benefits from the National social Insurance Fund (CNPS), the secular arm of the State.

This is the revolution brought by a decree signed August 13, 2014 by Cameroonian Prime Minister Philémon Yang, which fixed 'conditions and procedure for taking in charge voluntary contributors to the old-age pension, disability and death insurance'.

Concerned by this new measure, says the text of the PM, the 'people with contributory capabilities, but which are not subject to a mandatory coverage against the risks of old age, invalidity and death; workers who do not meet the requirements for affiliation to the general regime, to the staff of the State regime, or any special social security scheme; former insured which cease to fulfill the conditions of coverage under the general scheme.

All the excluded social security in Cameroon can now enter to the file of CNPS, on "presentation of a request to the competent social security body centre instead of his home against a receipt ', we learn.

According to the Minister of labour and social security, Grégoire Owona, this Decree by the PM aims to increase the rate of coverage of the population to the services offered by CNPS, which was limited to workers in the formal sector (excluding officers of the liberal professions) so far, while officials of the State benefit from the special regime implemented by the ministries of public service and finance.

But above all, the decree signed August 13, 2014 by the head of the Cameroonian Government, constitutes a significant step forward towards the achievement of the Government ambition, to increase the rate of coverage of social security in the country.