Created in 1975 from the merger of the National Pension and Social Insurance Fund (both were set up in the aftermath of the country's independence in 1959), which divided the field of retirement, for first, and that of coverage- disease for the second CNRPS has since legal personality and financial autonomy that corollary legal capacity and management autonomy.
in 1998, the services of the CREGT (Case retirement of Electricity Gas and Transport) were transferred to the CNRPS.