Tunisia

The work injury and family allowances regulatory frameworks were enacted in Tunisia before independence in 1956, while that of unemployment, sickness and maternity and old age, disability and survivors was enacted after independence. Tunisia introduced a social assistance programme named the Programme National d’Aide aux Familles Nécessiteuses in 1986, aiming to provide financial aid to the most vulnerable families. In 2015, the programme had 235,000 household participants receiving a monthly cash transfer of between US$240.04 and US$288.46. The programme is fully funded by the government, with 0.57 percent of GDP spent on social assistance in 2015, translating to social assistance expenditure of US$1,141.40 per poor person per year.