Social Insurance General Office
Social insurance administration
Mongolia's state administrative organisation in charge of social insurance: a Government implementing agency that implements social insurance legislation at national level, organises the formation of the Social Insurance Fund and the payment of pensions, benefits and other payments from it, and supervises aimag, capital city and district social insurance organisations (General Law on Social Insurance, 7 July 2023, in force 1 January 2024, Articles 37.1, 37.2 and 37.14, legalinfo.mn). Under Article 6 of that law social insurance comprises pension insurance, benefit insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial accident and occupational disease insurance, and health insurance.
The pension system the Office administers was put into statutory form with the establishment of the Social Security Office in 1942 and the first Pension Law in 1958, and the current system was established through pension reforms in 1994 and 1999 (Japan International Cooperation Agency, ex-post evaluation of the Project on Strengthening the Capacity for Social Insurance Operation, Mongolia Office, May 2025). That evaluation identified the Office's continuing work as strengthening application, premium collection and benefit payment, extending coverage to the informal sector including herders, and improving pension records.
PEOPLE
B. Batjargal
Head of the Social Insurance General Office - named as head of the Office in October 2026 reporting on the basic pension to be paid from 1 November 2026 and on expanding the Office's electronic services (Utga.mn, 26 October 2026; Ubsonin, 12 October 2026)
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RECORD
Legal basis - DOCUMENTED
The General Law on Social Insurance (revised edition, 7 July 2023, in force 1 January 2024) provides in Article 37.4 that the head of the state administrative organisation in charge of social insurance is selected under the Law on Civil Service and appointed and dismissed by the Government on the proposal of the Cabinet member responsible for labour and social security, and in Article 37.14 that the organisation drafts the Social Insurance Fund budget, controls fund revenue generation and organises payment of pensions and allowances within the time limit set by law (General Law on Social Insurance, Article 37, legalinfo.mn).
Social Insurance Fund in 2024 - DOCUMENTED
The National Statistics Office recorded total revenue of the Social Insurance Fund at MNT 5,574.0 billion in 2024, up MNT 1,302.4 billion (30.5 percent) on 2023, and total expenditure at MNT 5,095.0 billion, up MNT 1,060.1 billion (26.3 percent) (National Statistics Office, January-December 2024 release, published 16 January 2025, 1212.mn).
Social Insurance Fund in the first half of 2025 - DOCUMENTED
The Social Insurance Fund generated MNT 3,220.5 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, up MNT 390.7 billion on the same period in 2024, while expenditure reached MNT 2,903.2 billion; pension insurance payments amounted to MNT 2,666.6 billion covering 518,800 individuals, of whom 79.3 percent were senior citizens (National Statistics Office figures reported by MONTSAME via Qazinform, 23 July 2025).
Reform package submitted, June 2025 - REPORTED
AmCham Mongolia's Weekly Policy Note of 6 June 2025 reported that Cabinet had voted to submit a package of amendments to the General Law on Social Insurance, the Law on Pensions from the Social Insurance Fund and other legislation, aiming to reduce the burden on the Fund by introducing a multi-pillar pension system with a basic pension and an optional private pension scheme, capping the salary base for occupational accident contributions and reducing employer rates for occupational risk insurance (AmCham Mongolia Weekly Policy Note, 6 June 2025). Research in progress on the package's passage and on the Fund's deficit position.
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