ESPN Thematic Report on Making access to social protection for workers and the self-employed more transparent through information and simplification - Austria.

The purpose of this report is to identify and analyse policies put in place by the country to improve transparency in access to social protection, considering both access to information and simplification of access. The report focuses on the six social protection branches covered in the 2019 Council Recommendation on Access to social protection for workers and the self-employed (hereafter “2019 Council Recommendation”) and covers policies and measures implemented between January 2017 and May 2022. In order to ensure access to information, a number of different instruments are in place and some new initiatives have been taken since the beginning of 2017.