Legal Insurance Information No. (189)
His Majesty the King’s directives to pay (100) dinars to employees and retirees in the armed forces and security services will certainly include military retirees from the Social Security Corporation, to whom the Social Security Corporation has allocated pensions for natural disability or disability resulting from a work injury, as well as pensions for death and martyrs.
It is known that all military personnel who joined the army or security services were included in the provisions of the Social Security Law as of the beginning of 2003, as their retirement, whether early or old age, will begin at the beginning of next year 2023 after they have completed military service for a period of at least (20) years.
It is also certain that the Social Security Corporation will not bear the cost of the royal grant, but rather the state treasury will bear it. There is, of course, a big difference between the Social Security treasury as an independent institution, whose funds are the proceeds of subscriptions and investment returns on contributions from establishments and subscribers, and the state treasury allocated for public spending. I do not believe that the law allows the Social Security Corporation to pay or contribute to paying the cost of this grant..!
On the other hand, everyone should know that all social security retirees are children of the Social Security Corporation, and that approving an increase for social security retirees whose salaries are less than (300) dinars, and their number has reached (140) thousand retirees, with a reasonable and appropriate value, has become necessary to improve their standard of living, so that this increase becomes part of their retirement salaries, and I do not see what legally prevents taking such a decision to achieve the public interest, as it is not acceptable for these salaries to remain at this low level.!