The protocol covers the period 2024-2028 and will be signed during a visit by the Minister of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security, Teresa Rodrigues Dias, to the archipelago, between Tuesday and Thursday.
On the Cape Verde side, the agreement will be signed by Fernando Elísio Freire, Minister of Family, Inclusion and Social Development, who also holds the Labor portfolio.
The bilateral agreement comes at a time when social security is on the agenda of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP).
The CPLP Ministers of Labor and Social Affairs approved, in April, in Lisbon, a strategic cooperation plan.
The document will guide the work to implement the Multilateral Convention on Social Security, approved in Benguela, Angola, in 2023, but which only Portugal and Timor-Leste have yet ratified.
When it comes into force, the convention will allow the totalization of pensions, that is, the pensions from the various countries are added together and the total is received in the current country where you reside.
The nine countries that make up the CPLP are Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.
