Decree Amending the Civil Service Retirement Pension Rules to Improve Conditions for Public Administration Agents

This decree modifies the 18 February 2011 decree (which itself revised the 6 October 2004 decree) on Haiti's Pension Civile de Retraite for public administration agents. Given the inadequacy of the pension calculation rules in place since 2004 relative to actual salaries and accumulated rights, and the fund's exposure to full contribution refunds that decapitalize it, the decree creates the Plan de Retraite de l'Administration Publique (PRAP) as a mandatory, contributory defined-benefit scheme covering civil servants, employees of independent state institutions, autonomous agencies without their own pension regime, and Treasury-paid contractual staff.

Eligibility requires a minimum age of 58 and at least five years (60 months) of contributory service; early retirement between ages 55 and 58 is possible with a 1% reduction per missing year. The pension is calculated on a 'salaire de référence' equal to the weighted average of the 60 best monthly salaries. On death, 50% of the monthly pension passes to a non-remarried surviving spouse and dependent children (minors, or up to age 25 with proof of enrollment), with reversibility ending on the survivor's death, remarriage, or a dependent child's majority without continued incapacity. Liquidation requires specified civil documents; approved pension awards must be published in Le Moniteur, and pensioners receive a magnetic-encoded identification card free of charge from the Direction de la Pension.