The Finance and Central Registers division (FCR) consists of the following sections: First Pillar Finance (FPP), CSC Finance (FCS), Payment of Individual OASI/DI Benefits (PPI), Statistics and Central Registers (SCR) and the cross-divisional services FICO and Purchasing.
The tasks of the FCR division are mainly defined by laws, ordinances and regulations on old-age and survivors' insurance and disability insurance, as well as the ordinance on the Central Compensation Office (CCO), the directives of the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO) and the Register Harmonisation Act.
The FCR division is responsible for everything that cannot be handled in a decentralised manner by the OASI/DI/IC federal social insurance system, namely:
- maintaining central bookkeeping records for the 1st pillar
- managing the movement of funds to and from compensation offices and compenswiss
- managing the seven central registers for:
- OASI/DI insured persons
- OASI/DI pensions
- beneficiaries of OASI/DI benefits in kind
- identification of individuals ‘UPI’
- family allowances
- loss of earnings allowances IC
- supplementary benefits
- recording, verifying the tariff of and paying electronic and paper invoices relating to individual OASI/DI benefits in support of the DI offices
- assigning, communicating and providing support for the management of OASI numbers for the systematic users of these outside the OASI/DI system
- compiling statistical data on the first pillar of social insurances
The FCR is also responsible for:
- accounting, payments and litigation for the Swiss Compensation Office (SCO)
- drawing up and monitoring the CdC’s budget using management control tools
- keeping the CdC's financial and analytical accounts in accordance with the service agreement (monitoring ITFP indicators)
- managing the CdC's purchases in accordance with public procurement procedures
Last modification 05.05.2025
