The procedures set out in said regulation are meant to help recipients get appropriate answers, by means of cooperation between the social security institutions.

However, this regulation lays down the general principle that all national governments, social security institutions and even courts have to comply when applying national legislation.

The share allocated to the state has tended to decline, while that allocated to the social security institutions and local governments has grew.

Its audit mandate also covers social security institutions and the activities of the federal government in private-law enterprises of which it is a shareholder.

All taxes are collected by the state agencies mentioned, who then distribute them to the local authorities, municipalities and the church parishes, and social security institution Kela.

It extends to all persons who make use of the coordination of national social security systems: citizens, Member States' social security institutions, health care providers and employers.

SGK (Social Security Institution of Turkey) (migrating)

The Social Security Institution is continuing its activities to provide better quality of services for our citizens with the participation of whole staff putting all their energy individually and institutionally.

And its successes weren't negligible: it carried out a vast agrarian reform, created social security institutions, widened the educational net and fostered four decades of economic growth with political stability.

It was built and is run by a public sector department PESSI (Punjab Employees Social Security Institution)

According to a study by Deutsche Angestellten-Krankenkasse, a German social security institution, there was a 70% increase in the number of psychological conditions in the workplace between 1997 and 2004.

Established with the financial support of IAOIZ, there is a modern, fully equipped Social Security Institution Medical Center which serves 24 hours with 11 doctors.

I can only hope, from the information at our disposal, that the computerisation of the Social Security Institution, the law on regional companies and certain reforms along these lines will bring in results.

Social Security Institution SGK Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu (SGK)

We have had more than 270 from the Member States, from regional and local authorities, and from European national and regional organisations, representing patients, healthcare providers, health professionals, social security institutions, health insurance, universities, and hospitals, and even from individual citizens.

The EESSI network (Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information) will ensure that data exchange will be quick and secure and will shorten the period of time that social security institutions take to reply and to process a cross-border situation.

In addition, it is also responsible for a large number of public social security institutions, such as the National Office for Social Security, the National Institute for the Social Security of the Self-employed, the National Office for Pensions and the National Employment Office.

Recent investigations by the Greek authorities, together with other available data, reveal that 10.5% of businesses are not registered with the Social Security Institution and that the percentage of non-registered workers fluctuates between 21% and 30%, resulting in a loss of billions of euro from the public purse and, in particular, the social insurance funds.