AMMAN — The
Social Security Corporation (SSC) is studying an amendment that would allow husbands to claim their wife’s pension
after her death, SSC Assistant Director Mohammad Odeh said.
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Odeh told
Jordan News that the
final decision will be issued after the approval of concerned parties on the
matter, adding that this review came after serious controversy over the issue.
Women’s affairs activist Nuha Al-Muhairiz
told
Jordan News that the adoption of this article confirms the
importance of equality and justice between men and women, indicating that a man
has the right, after great effort and hard work in his career, to bequeath
money after his death to his wife and children for the remainder of their lives.
Likewise, she said, a woman has the same
right to give her money to her husband and children after her death, especially
since any woman is afraid for her family after her death and she has the right
to secure and protect them.
Loay Obeidat, a lawyer and a human rights activist,
told
Jordan News that that legislation should be reviewed and made more just
to women.
He said that men sometimes have no income
and should have the right to benefit from their wife’s pension after her death,
"just like wives who benefit from their husbands' pensions after their
death".
Obeidat said that he stands with the
adoption of this article and any other article that makes the legislation more
just and equitable and in line with the efforts made to empower women.
The SSC has approximately 1.4 million subscribers,
of which 386,000 (28 percent) are women. In total, the SSC has 276,000
registered pensioners, of which 49,000 (18 percent) are women.
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