[1] The social security system provided pension, disability and healthcare benefits to members.
[2] In 2006, President Enrique Bolaños released an actuarial study conducted by an Inter-institutional Technical Commission (Comisión Técnica Interinstitucional, or CTI) that anticipated coming deficits in spite of the program's solvency at the time (in 2007, income exceeded expenses).
Subsequent studies by the INSS also suggested the program would face deficits beginning around 2014, and reach insolvency sometime after 2019.
[3] The program remained solvent in the period from 2007 to 2011, under President Daniel Ortega, despite the international financial crisis.
[4] In early 2018, the International Monetary Fund pushed for Nicaragua to raise the retirement age, from 60 to 65,[2][5] to address the program's anticipated losses in future years.