Social Security is a social protection program which provides insurance coverage to insured workers and/or their defendants in the event of interruption in their ability to earn income due to injury, sickness, injury, invalidity, old age or death.

The Act Establishing the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) was passed into law by the National Legislature on July 10, 1975. The Act empowers NASSCORP to administer the Social Security Program in Liberia. It mandates NASSCORP to administer three Schemes. They are:

1. Employment Injury Scheme (EIS) was launched February 1, 1980;
2. National Pension Scheme (NPS) was launched September 1, 1988; and
3. Welfare Scheme (WS), will be launched as soon as the Government of Liberia identifies how it will be funded.

The Act Establishing the National Social Security & Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) was revised in February 2017.

Employment Injury refers to personal injury (including body injury, such as loss of limp, visual, etc.) which occurs while a person is at work. Employment injury also includes occupational disease.

An Occupational Disease is a disease that a person contracts as a result of performing his/her job over a period of time.

Benefits under the Employment Injury Scheme are provided in case of disability or death of an insured person due to an employment injury. They are:

1. Medical Benefit
2. Temporary Disablement Benefit
3. Permanent Disablement Benefit
4. Constant Attendance Allowance
5. Lump sum Death Benefit, and
6. Funeral Grant

Registered employers contribute 2% monthly in behalf of each insured employee. This amount is not deducted from the earnings of employees, but is the employers’ contribution liability to social security towards the provision of benefits in cash and or kind to insured employees who cannot continue work as a result of injury or occupational disease.

Since it is not possible for the traditional herbalist to submit a reliable medical report, which can be reviewed professionally by our panel of medical doctors, Social Security does not approve of sick or injured employees seeking traditional herbalist treatment.

Medical Benefit is awarded immediately following a job-related accident. The standard of medical care consists of outpatient and in-patient treatment, all necessary drugs and dressings, pathological and radiological investigations, specialist consultation and care, etc. Medical care is provided at recognized licensed hospitals and clinics.

Upon sustaining an employment injury, the insured person should:

1. Give notice of the injury either orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, to the employer/foreman/supervisor, and the particulars of the injury should be written down in the Accident Book kept at the factory/entity;
2. Obtain a medical certificate from the medical practitioner who treated the insured person.
3. Fill in properly the prescribed claim form and submit it to NASSCORP along with the medical certificate, original receipts, medical report, police report (in case of Commuting Accident or two eyewitness’ statements (in case of industrial Accident).

The Scheme protects all insured persons who are employed, except voluntary insured persons, daily hires, personnel of the Armed Forces of Liberia, members of the employer’s family, etc.)

The National Pension Scheme is a contributory insurance program which awards pension benefits to insured employees who are retired as the result of old age, sickness or severe injury which forces them to stop work, or to dependants of deceased insured person.