Algeria ESSS Social Security Contest study plan

Map the institutional architecture of Algerian social security: identify the ministry of reference, the national social insurance fund, the salary guarantee fund and the complementary retirement fund, and state each body's legal mission in one sentence

Trace the historical development of Algerian social security legislation from the founding ordinances of the early 1970s to the current codification, listing at least six milestone texts with their year and object

Define the core legal concepts in French and Arabic: assuré social, affiliation, cotisation, prestation, risque couvert, and explain how the insured/employer/State triangle of financing is legally organised

Distinguish the general scheme from the special schemes (public servants, self-employed, non-salaried agricultural workers) by coverage, managing body and benefit rules

Explain the conditions of opening entitlement for each social insurance branch: health, maternity, disability, old-age and survivors, naming the qualifying periods and the documents required

Describe the governance and supervisory organs of the social security institutions, including the role of the board of directors, the general management and State financial control

Summarise the rules on the insured person's obligations and the sanctions for fraud or undeclared work under Algerian social security law

Outline how disputes are handled: internal appeal, social security commission, and recourse before the competent courts

Detail the health insurance branch: reimbursement of medical acts, the third-party payment system, the treating-physician pathway and the list of covered and excluded services

Explain the maternity branch: duration of leave, daily allowances, coverage of prenatal and postnatal care, and the position of the father's entitlements

Analyse the disability branch: definition of incapacity, categories and rates, the role of the medical commission, and the interaction with work-accident compensation

Distinguish old-age from survivors' entitlements: retirement age and early retirement conditions, survivors' ranking and reduction rules

Compute contribution bases and rates for salaried and non-salaried insured persons, including the employer share, the employee share and the State's contribution in the relevant schemes

Reconstruct the monthly and annual declaration workflow: affiliation of the employer, registration of employees, declaration of social contributions, and deadlines with the related penalties

Apply the pension formula step by step to worked examples, including the reference salary, the years of contribution and the proration rules for incomplete careers

Calculate daily allowances for sickness and maternity and compare them with the compensation for disability, identifying the common base and the differences

Summarise the general statute of the public service: recruitment, probation, grading, promotion, mobility, discipline and termination, and identify the authority competent for each decision

Explain the fundamental rights and duties of the civil servant and the role of the administrative courts in reviewing disciplinary and career decisions

Outline the basics of the labour code for the private sector: types of employment contract, trial period, working time, leave, dismissal and the role of the labour inspectorate

Describe the Algerian budget cycle: preparation, vote by Parliament, execution, and control by the financial courts, and distinguish the general budget from annexed budgets and special accounts

Build a dated timeline of Algerian institutional history from independence to the present constitutional framework, naming the key institutions and their competences

Identify the major current public institutions and their heads' appointment procedures, and review recent social and economic current affairs relevant to social protection

Write a 250-word structured text in French on a social security topic, using correct administrative register, connectors and paragraphing

Write the same argument in Arabic, respecting formal administrative style and correct terminology for social insurance

Practise reading comprehension on administrative and legal texts: extract the main claim, the legal basis and the conclusion from a 400-word passage in French and in Arabic

Correct the ten most frequent grammar and spelling errors in your own written French and Arabic output, keeping an error log

Solve percentage, ratio, average and index-number problems applied to contributions and pensions, showing each step

Interpret simple statistical tables and charts on insured populations and benefit expenditure, and state two justified conclusions from each

Demonstrate proficiency in spreadsheet functions used for contribution tracking: formulas, sorting, filtering, pivot summaries and conditional formatting on a small insured-persons dataset

Explain the purpose and basic use of a social security information system: identification of the insured, data confidentiality, and the paper-to-digital declaration transition

Rehearse the whole syllabus under exam conditions with two full mock papers and review every error by domain

Consolidate weak points from your error log into a final one-page revision sheet covering all ten domains