All United Nations Secretariat staff members are required to keep information about their dependents and household members up to date. A recognition of a family member as a dependent may give rise to payment of dependency benefits provided the required conditions are met:
- Household member refers to UN recognized family members, i.e. spouse, child, legally adopted child, disabled child and secondary dependents (parent or sibling) of a staff member, who have not yet been recognized as dependents.
- Dependent refers to UN recognized family members as defined above for whom the staff member provides main and continuing support and who meet the criteria as per staff rule 3.6 and ST/AI/2018/6.
- Dependency allowance refers to the monetary entitlement a staff member can receive for their dependents.
- For General Service (GS) and related categories:
Dependency benefits for staff members in these categories are provided in the form of a flat rate allowance in those duty stations where it is applicable, i.e. provided for in the relevant General Service and related salary scale.
- For Professional and higher categories:
Dependency benefits for staff members in these categories are provided in the form of a flat rate allowance a staff member may be paid, they may receive a single parent allowance in lieu of a dependent child allowance per ST/AI/2018/6.
The Umoja Employee Self Service (ESS) Annual Declaration form is used to review and monitor staff member dependency entitlements. This process replaces Inspira’ s eP84 form and other local arrangements used in the past for this purpose.
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Last modified:
22 February 2022