DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT “AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE” Project 2020. As a result of the measures that will be implemented, the compulsory state social insurance system will improve and state pension saving mechanisms will be created. Issues of transferring some of the compulsory state social insurance fees into a saving account, the application of voluntary pension insurance and the involvement of private pension funds in managing the funds accumulated in private saving accounts will be resolved. At the same time, citizens will be provided with easy access to information about the amount of social insurance fees accumulated in their individual accounts. The registration of insurers will be totally automated, the insurees will be automatically registered in the state social insurance system, information about compulsory state social insurance accounts and about insurees will be passed and received electronically, and insurers will be audited automatically. Along with the aforesaid, citizens of the country will not need to provide any document to get their pensions, the appropriate request will be submitted electronically and pensions will be appointed from a single centre in an automatic way on the basis of electronic requests from citizens. In order to secure a worthy lifestyle for working citizens, measures will be taken, depending on economic development, to gradually increase the amount of minimum wages to minimum living standards and the norm determined in European countries – 60 per cent of the average monthly salary. The difference in the population’s incomes will be reduced as a result of continuing work to increase the share of wages in the population’s general incomes and appropriate measures in the sphere of social security. Work will be strengthened to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for working citizens and a state programme will be prepared to protect labour and improve working conditions. A national information system in the field of labour and employment will be created, a system for monitoring and analyzing the situation on the labour market will be established and serious measures will be taken to prevent unofficial employment. The population’s social security system will improve, and along with the strengthening of the material-technical base of government agencies providing social services and expansion of their types and networks, the sector of private and noncommercial organizations working in this sphere will be developed. The number of social apartments (houses) will increase and the main groups of the population will be provided with a legal right to live in these apartments. Social allowances will be unified and measures to increase their amount will continue. The system of allowances given to families with children will be improved. Rules of identifying families’ need for social aid in order to establish a modern social security system and to reduce poverty will be improved and the level of the needs criteria will 25