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{{Short description|Mexican public health system}}
{{Infobox government agency
| agency_name     = Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers
| parent_agency   = [[Secretariat of Health (Mexico)|Secretariat of Health]]
| logo            = Logo del ISSSTE.svg
| logo_width      = 200px
| logo_caption    = '''ISSSTE Logo'''
| formed          = 1959
| jurisdiction    = [[Federal government of Mexico]]
| headquarters    = Plaza de la República No 148, Col. Tabacalera, [[México City]]
| employees       = 
| budget          = 
| chief1_name     = [[Martí Batres]]
| chief1_position = General Director
| website         = [http://www.issste.gob.mx/ www.issste.gob.mx/]
}}

[[File:Oficinas Centrales del ISSSTE.png|right|thumb|Central offices of ISSSTE in [[Mexico City]].]] 
The '''Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers''' or '''Civil Service Social Security and Services Institute''' ({{langx|es|Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado}}, '''ISSSTE''')<ref>Also sometimes rendered in English as the "State Workers Social Security Institute"</ref> is a [[federal government|federal agency]] in [[Mexico]] that administers part of [[Healthcare in Mexico|Mexico's health care]] and [[social security]] systems for federal government workers. 

Unlike the [[Mexican Social Security Institute]] (or IMSS), which covers workers in the private sector, the ISSSTE is charged with providing benefits for federal government workers only.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gerson |first=Philip R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BAWf5BuQt0sC |title=Pension Regimes and Saving |author2=Cuevas, Alfredo |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |year=1997 |isbn=1-55775-640-6 |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=appendix III}}</ref> The ISSSTE provides assistance in cases of disability, old age, early retirement, and death (or IVCM, for ''invalidez, vejez, cesantía en edad avanzada, y muerte'') to federal workers.  Together with the IMSS, the ISSSTE provides health coverage for between 55 and 60 percent of the population of Mexico.<ref>{{cite book  | last = Purcell  | first = Susan Kaufman  |author2=Rubio-Freidberg, Luis  | title = Mexico Under Zedillo  | publisher = [[Lynne Reinner Publishers]]  | year = 1998  | pages = 81  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NW8lXlGmsKEC  | isbn = 1-55587-315-4}}</ref>

== History and responsibilities ==
ISSSTE was founded on December 30, 1959 by [[President of Mexico|president]] [[Adolfo López Mateos]].<ref>{{cite web |date=2 January 2019 |title=El día que surgió el ISSSTE |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mini-mochilazo-en-el-tiempo/el-dia-que-surgio-el-issste |access-date=September 15, 2020 |website=El Universal |language=es}}</ref>

In addition to ISSSTE, which is exclusive for employees of the federal government, states in Mexico have their own separate health and retirement system for government workers within its own state. For example, the state of [[Tabasco]] offers its employees retirement, health, and other similar benefits through an agency called ''Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Tabasco'', or "ISSET".<ref>[http://www.isset.gob.mx/normatividad/Ley_ISSET.pdf ''Ley del Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Tabasco*.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601130329/http://www.isset.gob.mx/normatividad/Ley_ISSET.pdf|date=2012-06-01}} State Government of the State of Tabasco. Retrieved 2 February 2012.</ref>

In September 2020, former director of FOVISSSTE [[José Reyes Baeza Terrazas]] was accused of embezzling MXN $129 million (US $6.14 million) as part of the ''{{Interlanguage link|estafa maestra|es|La estafa maestra}}'' ("master scam") scandal.<ref>{{cite news |last1=López Ponce |first1=Jannet |title=UIF congela cuentas de Reyes Baeza, ex gobernador de Chihuahua |url=https://www.msn.com/es-mx/noticias/mexico/uif-congela-cuentas-de-reyes-baeza-ex-gobernador-de-chihuahua/ar-BB194g00?ocid=msedgdhp |access-date=Sep 15, 2020 |work=www.msn.com |publisher=Milenio |date=September 15, 2020 |language=es}}</ref>

== Criticism ==
Like much of Mexico's health care system, the ISSSTE has been the subject of numerous criticisms and allegations, ranging from [[Political corruption|corruption]] to a heavy regional bias in favor of major cities with well organized labor unions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dawson |first=Alexander |url=https://archive.org/details/firstworlddreams0000daws |title=First World Dreams: Mexico Since 1989 |publisher=Zed Books |year=2006 |isbn=1-84277-661-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstworlddreams0000daws/page/32 32], 126 |url-access=registration}}</ref> 

==See also==
* [[Secretariat of Health (Mexico)]] 
* [[Mexican Social Security Institute]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.issste.gob.mx/ Official ISSSTE website] (in Spanish)

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[[Category:Government of Mexico]]
[[Category:1959 establishments in Mexico]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1959]]
[[Category:Medical and health organizations based in Mexico]]