What is Social Security?
Related Areas of Law: Insurance - Claims - Disputes -
Disability - Benefits - Unemployment
Social security primarily refers to a social insurance
program providing social protection, or protection against socially
recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment
and others. Social security may refer to:
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social insurance, where people receive benefits or
services in recognition of contributions to an insurance scheme. These
services typically include provision for retirement pensions, disability
insurance, survivor benefits and unemployment insurance.
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income maintenance—mainly the distribution of cash in the
event of interruption of employment, including retirement, disability and
unemployment
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services provided by administrations responsible for
social security. In different countries this may include medical care,
aspects of social work and even industrial relations.
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More rarely, the term is also used to refer to basic
security, a term roughly equivalent to access to basic necessities—things
such as food, clothing, shelter, education and medical care.
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