Glossary:General government contributions
These contributions consist of:
- the cost to general government of running government-controlled non-contributory schemes, including, for instance, government expenditure on government-controlled schemes that guarantees a certain minimum income to all residents of the country in question and the cost of providing goods and services to indigent households as a matter of public assistance;
- financial support provided by general government to other resident social protection schemes, including, among others, unrequited payments made by government to government and not government-controlled social protection schemes to contribute to the cost of benefits provided by these schemes, supporting their administration costs or covering deficits incurred over current or previous accounting periods. Also included here are capital transfers in the form of extraordinary payments by government designed to increase the actuarial reserves of social protection schemes and the proceeds of lotteries which government puts to their use.