Cyprus

This report analyses some important cash and in-kind social protection provisions available to adults with disabilities (i.e. people aged 18 or above). There are other important provisions available to them in other areas not covered in this report.

This document presents the plan submitted by the Government of Cyprus to the EU Council Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. 

A law to establish a scheme of social insurance providing cash benefits for marriage, maternity, sickness, unemployment, widowhood, orphanhood, old age and death.  

Social protection benefits expenditure as a percentage of GDP between 2019 and 2020 has increased in almost all EU Member States, with the largest jump recorded in Cyprus and estimated at +2.2 per cent.

As of January 2022, a total of 3,856 social protection and labor measures were planned or implemented by 223 economies. This constitutes a net increase of 523 measures, or 15.6 percent since the last update in May 2021. While noteworthy, such increase is the lowest among net additions observed over previous semesters. In fact, the global pace of measures’ introduction over January 2020-January 2022 has been slowing down. This report focuses on the real-time review of country measures in terms of social protection and job responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19).