Benin

Benin introduced social insurance laws related to work injury, sickness, maternity and unemployment before independence in 1960. By 2003, most of these laws had been updated by the Benin administration. In 2015, a social assistance programme named the Projet de Services Décentralisés Conduits par les Communautés (PSDCC), was introduced as a pilot with 12,500 household participants receiving a cash transfer of between US$16 and US$60 every month. The programme aims to establish an efficient social safety net system to protect the poor, smooth consumption and improve households' ability to cope with shocks. Benin’s social assistance programme allows for appeals to be made against selection decisions. Social assistance spending was 2.90 percent of GDP in 2014, translating into social assistance spending of US$55.23 per poor person.