Social security is primarily 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:

• social insurance, where people receive benefits or services in recognition of contributions to an insurance program. These services typically include provision for retirement pensions, disability insurance, survivor benefits and unemployment insurance.
• income maintenance, mainly the distribution of cash in the event of interruption of employment, including retirement, disability and unemployment
• services provided by administrations responsible for social security. In different countries this may include medical care, aspects of social work and even industrial relations.
• 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, housing, education, money, and medical care.

The right to social security is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Noun

Singular social security

Plural uncountable

social security (uncountable)

1. A system whereby the state either through general or specific taxation provides various benefits to those unable to provide for themselves.
2. Those benefits paid under such a system.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884-1928, and First Supplement, 1933

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Category: English nouns

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