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The State Social Insurance Agency Charter

Original Language Title: Valsts sociālās apdrošināšanas aģentūras nolikums

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Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 459 in Riga on 21 June 2011 (pr. 39. § 12) State social insurance agency regulations Issued pursuant to the public administration Act, article 16 of the equipment the first part i. General questions 1. State social insurance agency (hereinafter the Agency) is the Minister of welfare in the supervision by a public authority. Minister of supervision exercised by the Agency in the Ministry of welfare.
2. the objective of the Agency is to implement the national policy for social insurance and State social benefits, as well as administer the State retirement pension and the State funded pension scheme.
II. Agency functions, tasks, responsibilities and funding mechanism 3. the Agency shall have the following functions: 3.1. provide State social insurance pensions, allowances, remuneration (hereinafter referred to as the social security services), the State retirement pension and social benefits and costs;
3.2. to administer the State funded pension scheme;
3.3. manage state pension special budget passed national capital corporation;
3.4. provide information technology support to the Ministry of Welfare and its subordinated institutions in accordance with the cooperation agreement.
4. in accordance with the rules referred to in paragraph 3, the functions of the Agency shall undertake the following tasks: 4.1 issued administrative provisions on individual rights to social security services, State retirement pensions and State social benefits, as well as the membership of the State funded pension scheme;
4.2. register the socially insured persons, the State funded pension scheme members, social insurance contributions, insurance (work) seniority and systematically restore the database;
4.3. the State funded pension scheme participants funded in partnership with the retirement capital managers and take action with the State funded pension scheme member's accrued pension capital;
4.4. advises citizens to State social insurance, State social service benefits, the State retirement pension and the State funded pension scheme;
4.5. is administered by the State social insurance special budget and the General State programs financed from the State social benefits, the State retirement pension and State support for State social insurance;
4.6. the Agency shall organise and chair the function required for the implementation of information systems;
4.7. provide support to the Ministry of welfare and its subordinated institutions information technology users;
4.8. provides support for the Ministry of welfare and its subordinated institutions of information system development and maintenance;
4.9. provide technical support to the welfare sector in a single data center operations;
4.10 according to competence ensures that compliance with European Union legislation on the coordination of social security systems and international bilateral agreements;
4.11. provided welfare Minister and Welfare Ministry required information and proposals on the activities of the Agency;
4.12. the Agency provides personal data and other information protection according to the regulations on data protection;
4.13. the laws and carry out other tasks.
5. the Agency shall have the following rights: 5.1. to request and receive, free of charge from the State and municipal institutions, as well as of natural and legal persons in the Agency's functions, the necessary information, including sensitive personal data;
5.2. to recover the State social insurance, State social service benefits and the State retirement pension costs for State pārmaksāto used budget funds;
5.3. to give proposals to the Ministry of Welfare State policies, social security, public services, social benefits, the State retirement pension and the State funded pension scheme administration matters;
5.4 according to competence to cooperate with State and local authorities, non-governmental organizations, individuals and legal entities, as well as foreign institutions;
5.5. organize and manage seminars, conferences and other events, as well as to cooperate with foreign and international institutions, to address issues related to the competence of the Agency in the provision of services;
5.6. to prepare and distribute specialized newsletters;
5.7. conclude cooperation agreements and other contracts with the State and municipal institutions, non-governmental organizations, individuals and legal entities, as well as foreign and international institutions;
5.8. to enter into contracts with the managers of the funds of the State funded pension scheme management;
5.9. the Administration to withhold deductions from the State funded pension scheme members to cover the State funded pension scheme administration costs;
5.10 charge for public services provided by the Agency;
5.11. to exercise other legal rights.
6. the Agency's activities are financed from the social insurance special budget deductions from tax deductions for the State funded pension scheme administration, from public transfers in the general living expenses, donations and gifts from foreign financial assistance, as well as from their own revenue (including revenues from paid services rendered by the Agency). 
III. Agency structure and administration 7. The work of the agency headed by a Director, who is a civil servant. The Agency's Director shall make public administration facilities Act direct authorities managerial functions. The Director of the Agency shall determine the duties of the public agency law, these terms and the job description. The Director of the Agency shall be appointed and relieved of the post of Welfare Minister.
8. the Director of the Agency can be alternates. Deputy Director of the Agency shall be appointed and removed from Office, as well as their powers and responsibilities determined by the Director of the Agency.
IV. Activities of the Agency in ensuring the rule of law and the reporting agency director 9 decisions on disputed the Agency's officials issued regulations and actual action. The Director of the Agency's decision on the contested administrative act and actual action may appeal to the Court if the external laws and regulations unless otherwise specified.
10. The Director of the Agency to succeed administrative provisions and actual action can challenge Welfare Ministry, if the law does not provide otherwise.

11. Reports of the Agency's functions and the use of funds the Agency shall provide the management contract and the law.
V. concluding questions 12. Be declared unenforceable in the Cabinet of 16 December 2003, Regulation No 733 "State social insurance agency's rules" (Latvian journal, 2003, no. 182; 2006, no. 37).
13. the rules shall enter into force on July 1, 2011 and is valid until the public agency of the transitional provisions of the law referred to in paragraph 2 to reach a decision on the continuation of the activities of the Agency, the Agency for elimination or restructuring.
Prime Minister v. dombrovsky Welfare Minister Jurševsk of I.