Federal Social Insurance Office

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Federal Social Insurance Office FSIO
Headquarters Bern
French name Office fédéral des assurances sociales OFAS
Italian name Ufficio federale delle assicurazioni sociali UFAS
Chief Stéphane Rossini
At sight Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA
Website www.bsv.admin.ch

The Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO ) ( French Office fédéral des assurances sociales (OFAS) , Italian Ufficio federale delle assicurazioni sociali (UFAS) , Romansh Uffizi federal d'assicuranzas socialas (UFAS) ) is a federal authority of the Swiss Confederation . It reports to the Federal Department of Home Affairs, FDHA . It is based in Bern . 330 people work in the BSV, who share 240 full-time positions.

tasks

The FSIO takes care of part of the federal social insurance : the old-age and disability insurance (AHV), the disability insurance (IV), the supplementary benefits to these two insurances, the occupational pension scheme , the income compensation scheme for service providers and maternity as well as the family allowances . The FSIO controls the work of the executive bodies. In the area of ​​occupational pensions (which is formally organized under private law in Switzerland), the FSIO is primarily responsible for system development and the preparation of legislation. However, the supervision of the pension funds is carried out by the Supervision Commission for Occupational Pension Funds, which is independent of the administration . Important legislative projects such as the consolidation of old-age provision, the further development of disability insurance or the reform of supplementary benefits are prepared by the FSIO in accordance with the instructions of the Federal Council or the head of department. Since these projects are among the most controversial political issues in Switzerland, the FSIO is more at the fore than other federal offices in political discussions. The FSIO is also responsible at the federal level for the topics of family, children, youth and old age, intergenerational relationships and general social policy issues. At the federal level, it is the implementing authority for the financial aid for childcare in addition to the family (kick-off financing for crèche places).

Stéphane Rossini (* 1963) has been the Director of the Federal Social Insurance Office since December 1, 2019 .

budget

The federal government spends around a third of its spending on social welfare. In the past few years this has been equivalent to around CHF 20 billion. Half of this goes into old-age insurance and almost a quarter into disability insurance. This makes the FSIO one of the most important federal offices financially.

history

"In order to implement the Federal Act of June 13, 1911 on Health and Accident Insurance", the Federal Council proposed in 1912 that a "Federal Social Insurance Office" be created. Parliament agreed and changed the name to "Federal Social Insurance Office". It was the first federal agency to be called the Federal Office . In the first decades it belonged to the Department of Economics (FDEA) , since 1955 to the Federal Department of Home Affairs (EDI).

Other important tasks were the preparation and introduction of the AHV in 1948. Soon the BSV was also responsible for the income compensation scheme and family allowances in agriculture. The FSIO also negotiated social security agreements with other countries from 1949 and led the work to prepare the disability insurance, which was introduced in 1960. This was followed by the expansion and consolidation of old-age provision, the implementation of the three-pillar system (1972), the introduction of compulsory occupational pension schemes (1985) and the reorganization of accident insurance (1984). After 1990, the FSIO took part in implementing reforms that had been blocked for a long time: compulsory health insurance (1994) and the introduction of maternity insurance (2004).

In more recent times, tasks have been passed on to other offices: in 2004 the health and accident insurance to the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) and in 2012 the supervision of the occupational benefits to the newly created Supervision Commission for Occupational Benefits (OAK BV).

In 1938, 20 people were employed in the office; fifty years later the personnel budget comprised 218 people. In 1913 the office was temporarily quartered on the premises of the National Bank in Bern; from 1915 to 1924 the FSIO was located in the house of the newspaper “ Der Bund ” on Effingerstrasse. After an interlude on Bundesgasse in the premises of the Federal Office for Industry, Commerce and Labor (BIGA), the BSV set up its headquarters at Effingerstrasse 33 in 1934. In 2000 the move took place “across the street” to Effingerstrasse 20.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Federal Council - media releases: Stéphane Rossini new director of the Federal Social Insurance Office. July 3, 2019, accessed March 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on the establishment of a Federal Social Insurance Office. October 29, 1912 ( PDF )
  3. ^ History of the Social Security Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO). Accessed February 8, 2018 (German).

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Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '46.2 "  N , 7 ° 26' 3.2"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred sixty-five  /  199454