The portability of social benefits isgaining importance given the increasing share of individualsworking at least part of their life outside their homecountry. Bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) areconsidered a crucial approach to establishing portability,but the functionality and effectiveness of these agreementshave not yet been investigated; thus, importance guidancefor policy makers in migrant-sending and migrant-receivingcountries is missing. To shed light on how BSSAs work inpractice, this document is part of a series providinginformation and lessons from studies of portability in fourdiverse but comparable migration corridors: Austria-Turkey,Germany-Turkey, Belgium-Morocco, and France-Morocco. Asummary policy paper draws broader conclusions and offersoverarching policy recommendations. This report looksspecifically into the working of the France-Moroccocorridor. Findings suggest that the BSSA between France andMorocco is broadly working well, with only a few substantiveissues in the area of pensions and the task of implementingaccess to health care for retired migrants under the newBSSA effective as of 2011. The pension issues cluster aroundaccess to survivor’s pensions in view of civil lawdifferences of addressing divorces and repudiation and thenon-exportability of minimum pension guarantees in line withEuropean Union legislation and lacking reciprocity. Processissues around information provision in Morocco andautomation of information exchange to speed up benefitprocessing are recognized.
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