BASIC IDEAS FOR A COMPLETE SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEME

The development of nationwide systems of social security continues to be the major preoccupation of legislators in many countries. The article below, which was prepared by the Social Security Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance of Chile at the beginning of last year, develops a basic outline of a national social security scheme corresponding to current requirements both from the point of view of the social security rights of the insured population and from the point of view of the present state of social security techniques. It will be recalled that, as far back as 1924, Chile was one of the first Latin American countries to introduce social security. The contribution to the modern theory of social security made in this article can be considered as typical of the latest trends in this field in the Latin American continent.