Creo que se trata de apoyar económicamente a personas que han demostrado una carencia de recursos suficientes de subsistencia.

ASIGNACIONES ECONÓMICAS

DESCRIPCIÓN

El INASS, en su compromiso de mejorar la calidad de vida de los adultos y adultas mayores y otras categorías de personas, ofrece un importante apoyo económico, equivalente al 100% del salario mínimo actual (según lo expresó el Jefe de Estado venezolano, Hugo Chávez, al abordar el tema de la seguridad social para los adultos mayores durante el programa Aló Presidente 353, transmitido desde el estado Sucre) a aquellos adultos y adultas mayores que se encuentran en estado de necesidad y con ausencia de capacidad contributiva, personas menores de sesenta años de edad que se encuentren en estado de necesidad y que no estén integradas a un grupo familiar o con discapacidad total, familias en situaciones de desprotección económica, amas de casa y pueblos indígenas en estados de necesidad, cuya situación haya sido calificada y certificada por el Instituto Nacional de Servicios Sociales.

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com·pas·sion·ate (km-psh-nt)
adj.
1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane.
2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: compassionate military leave.
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Compassionate Allowances
Social Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

Compassionate allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate allowances allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.
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Procedure for Grant of Compassionate Allowance
In order to avoid delay in the payment of Compassionate Allowance, the following procedure should be adopted in cases relating to officers removed from service:-

On receipt of the orders of the Competent Authority removing an officer from service for misconduct, insolvency or inefficiency, the Head of the Office, if he proposes to recommend the grant of a Compassionate Allowance, should fill in the application for pension and send it to the Accounts Officer Concerned for report on the title to pension. The Head of the Office should not wait for an application from the officer.

If the Competent authority while issuing orders of removal states that a certain proportion of the compensation pension is to be granted as compassionate allowance, no further sanction to pension is necessary, and all that is required is that, the Accounts Officer should certify to the admissibility of the pension on a pension application completed and signed by the Head of the Office as provided in (1) above
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