The Federation's primary objective is to help the Catalan mutual societies to progress by promoting and consolidating them as a competitive and efficient provident insurance option and as an organisational model that complements the productive economy and the public systems of social protection.

• Championing and promoting mutual societies and voluntary social security provision before society and the government.
  
• Fostering relations and co-operation among mutual societies.
  
• Collaborating with public and private-sector organisations.
  
• Providing technical and administrative help to enhance the smooth running and viability of the Federation's member associations.
  
• Upholding and preserving mutual society members' rights in accordance with the applicable legislation.
  
• Covering risks and contingencies in the ways and modalities permitted by current legislation.
  
• Reinsuring risks taken by social welfare mutual societies.
  
• Processing statistical and accounting data.
  
• Carrying out studies, publishing articles, issuing promotional material and spreading information on voluntary social security provision.
  
• Setting up conciliation and arbitration systems.
  
• Providing common financial services for the mutual societies belonging to the Federation.
  
• Making agreements and contracts with public and private sector organisations for the benefit of the mutual societies belonging to the Federation and their members.