1966 CEART Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers_XI

Teacher Solidarity for the improvement of education

Survivors' benefit
138 The conditions of eligibility for survivors' benefit and the amount of such benefit should be such as to enable survivors to maintain an adequate standard of living and as to secure the welfare and education of surviving dependent children.

Means of providing social security for teachers
139 text

1. The social security protection of teachers should be assured as far as possible through a general scheme applicable to employed persons in the public sector or in the private sector as appropriate.
2. Where no general scheme is in existence for one or more of the contingencies to be covered, special schemes, statutory or non-statutory, should be established.
3. Where the level of benefits under a general scheme is below that provided for in this Recommendation, it should be brought up to the recommended standard by rneans of supplementary schemes.

140 Consideration should be given to the possibility of associating representatives of teachers' organizations with the administration of special and supplementary schemes, including the investment of their funds. Learn More