›› Insured person

Insured individuals

Suppose you are engaged in paid work in Algeria for one or more employers, regardless of the amount or nature of the income, whether full-time, part-time or casual. In that case, you are considered as a salaried employee.

Employees, this applies to you

• If you work 40 hours per week, which is the legal weekly working time, you are a full-time employee.
• If you work for less than 40 hours per week but more than 20 hours, i.e. half the legal weekly working hours, you are a part-time employee.
• If you are engaged in temporary work and are paid by the task, by the piece, by turnover, by the hour, etc., you are an occasional employee.

Good to know:

• If you are engaged in more than one paid activity for several employers, make sure that all your employers have registered you with the CNAS.
• An employee’s affiliation with the CNAS may be requested either at the request of the person concerned, their dependants or the trade union organisation.

What are contributions used for?

Contributions finance the benefits provided by the CNAS, i.e. reimbursement of your healthcare costs, daily allowances to compensate for your loss of earnings in the event of sick leave due to illness, accident at work, occupational disease, childbirth or disability.

Example: 1,000 DA collected by the CNAS is redistributed as follows:

• Social insurance – sickness, maternity, disability): 400 DA
• Work Accidents/ occupational Diseases: 35.71 DA
• Retirement/Pension : 507.14 DA
• Unemployment: 42.86 DA

National Fund for Social Works Equalization: 14.29 DA