Seychelles

Seychelles enacted work injury and old age, disability and survivors’ laws before independence in 1976. Family allowances and sickness and maternity laws were introduced after independence. A social assistance programme, the Old Age Pension, was introduced four years after independence and paid a monthly cash transfer of US$13.42 to participants, with supplement for dependants available under certain conditions for each dependent child and either a spouse, a person caring for the insured, or dependent adult with disability who is not receiving any other transfer. The social assistance expenditure was 2.51 percent of GDP, translating to social assistance spending of US$36,442.45 per poor person per year.