Social Security Institute of the Armed Forces and Police will not disappear

The reforms dismiss the disappearance of the Social Security Institute of the Armed Forces (ISSFA for its Spanish acronym), before the comments of the possibility that it could be absorbed by the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS)

The Coordinator Minister of Security, César Navas, announced that social insurance of the Armed Forces and Police will not be removed from the social security and indicated that these institutions currently have special regimes and are protected by the Constitution.

The entity currently registers 40,328 active beneficiaries,  29,125 passive users, 11,369 widowhood beneficiaries, un addition to the dependent, giving a total of 233,244 people receiving benefits from the institution.

Section 370 of the Constitution states: “the National Police and the Armed Forces shall have a special social security.”