Francisco Jacinto raised this concern during a round table that the International Labor Organization (ILO) held on Social Protection in Angola – Paths to Universal Coverage.
Speaking to Lusa, the union leader said that they were informed by the National Social Security Institute (INSS) about this fact last month.
"Because there was a question that was raised and one of the administrators answered us that the social security money has to be registered in the OGE. It was new to us, because we were never told (...) and we found out at that time and were amazed ", he said.
The general secretary of CGSILA said that workers' representatives are analyzing and want to be clarified about "what is actually happening with the social security money and what the objective is", he said.
Regarding this concern, the INSS administrator for Social Security and Inspection, Samuel Mulaza, explained that the inclusion serves for accounting purposes.
"It does not mean that it is financing the OGE, it is just an inclusion for accounting purposes, it has nothing to do with the INSS budgets financing the OGE, (...) [because] it is still revenue collected by a public entity ", he clarified.
Regarding the situation of social protection in the country, Francisco Jacinto said that it still "requires a lot of attention, a profound reform, to meet citizens' expectations".
The union leader considered that it is in basic social protection where there are problems and to a lesser extent in mandatory contributions.
Francisco Jacinto spoke of the Kwenda social monetary transfer program, implemented by the government, which is not "quite sufficiently responding to this mission".
"We are not saying that the initiative is not good, but it needs to be reformulated, the very way in which [monetary aid] is delivered has also raised many questions," he said.
"In mandatory social protection, there are also other problems. What a citizen thinks about when they retire, they think about death. We have to establish other parameters and we have already raised these discussions", he added.
In turn, Samuel Mulaza highlighted that social protection in Angola is constantly expanding, finding more and more mechanisms to serve the population, stressing that currently 2.9 million people are insured by the INSS, with a forecast of reaching 4.3 million by 2027.
