Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1977)

1. The Committee takes note of the Government's reply to its previous comments and notes in particular the information concerning the following provisions of the Convention: Part XIII (Common provisions), Article 69, and Part XIV (Miscellaneous provisions), Article 76 (in conjunction with Article 50) (Maternity benefit).

2. Part XIV (Miscellaneous provisions), Article 76 (in conjunction with Article 44) (Family benefit). The Committee had also requested the Government to supply the statistical data required by the report form on the Convention under Article 44, so that it could ascertain whether the total value of family benefits attained the percentage prescribed by this Article.

In its reply, the Government refers to the provisions of Supreme Decree No. 21.637 of 25 June 1987 issuing the regulations of Act No. 0924, which introduces certain important innovations to the family allowances scheme. The Committee takes note with interest of these improvements. However, it again asks the Government to indicate in its next report: (i) the total value (in Bolivian pesos) of family benefits, in both cash and kind, granted during the period covered by the report to the children of persons protected; (ii) the total number of children of all protected persons under the family allowances scheme (or the total number of children of all residents); (iii) the amount of the wage of an ordinary adult male labourer as established during the period covered by the report. (Please select the ordinary adult male labourer according to the rules laid down by Article 66, paragraphs 4 and 5, of the Convention.)

The Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to provide the above-mentioned statistical data.