FAFICS Affiliations

Messages from FAFICS President, Jerry Barton

Message to FAFICS member associations, 8 March 2024

Message from the AFICS/NY Co-Chair of the Standing Committee on Pension Issues, Suzanne Bishopric

(1) First the good news:  

Cost of Living Adjustment for US dollar track in April 2024 = 3.4%

You can read more about it through this link.

(2) The FAFICS proposal to the Pension Board, advocating an inflation adjustment for Small Pensions, received strong support from the Board during its Seventy-sixth session (21-22 February 2024).  The CEPA agreed to provide background information and suggestions to remedy the lack of inflation adjustments to small pensions.  The financial implications await the results of the 31 December 2023 actuarial results. It is expected that in 2025, further financial analysis and alternative solutions can be presented to the Board by the Pension Administration.

Thanks to President Jerry Barton and Gerhardt Schramek for getting the document to the Board in time for its February meeting.

End of The Year Message from the FAFICS President, 31 December 2023

Statement of Concern, 24 October 2023

Message to FAFICS member associations, 10 August 2023 after the 53rd Council Session in Vienna

Message to FAFICS member associations, January 2023

Letter to FAFICS member associations, November 2022

Letter to FAFICS member associations, 28 October 2022

Video message addressing FAFICS member associations worldwide (video 5')

Letter to FAFICS member associations, August 2022

 

AFICS/NY has sister organizations in several countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Congo Democratic Republic, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.

 

Together they form the Federation of Associations of Former International Civil Servants (FAFICS), which “…brings together Associations of retired International Civil Servants from the United Nations and the Specialized Agencies of the UN. There are currently 61 Member Associations of FAFICS, located in all regions of the world, with a total membership of about twenty thousand retirees.”  FAFICS is “…the official representative of pensioners and beneficiaries of the UNJSPF…attends the annual meetings of the UN Joint Staff Pension Board (UNJSPB)…(and) maintains close contact with the Chief Executive Officer of the Pension Fund and the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Investments and their senior staff…FAFICS website, June 2018

 

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List of FAFICS Member Associations & Associate Member Associations

 

 

FAFICS Statutes