Social Security
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Social security
is a social program providing protection against conditions like poverty, old age, and disability.
It may also refer to:
Social security
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:...
is a social program providing protection against conditions like poverty, old age, and disability.
It may also refer to:
- Social Security (Australia)Social Security (Australia)Social Security, in Australia, refers to a system of social welfare payments provided by Commonwealth Government of Australia. These payments are administered by a Government body named Centrelink...
, the system of welfare payments in Australia - Social Security (Sweden)Social Security (Sweden)Social security in Sweden consists of various social insurances handled by Försäkringskassan and welfare given out on a need basis by local municipalities.- Child allowance and parental benefit :...
- Social Security (United States)Social Security (United States)In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...
, the United States retirement/disability program- Social Security AdministrationSocial Security AdministrationThe United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
, the agency which administers the U.S. program - Social Security numberSocial Security numberIn the United States, a Social Security number is a nine-digit number issued to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents under section 205 of the Social Security Act, codified as . The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration, an independent...
, an identification number used in the U.S. to track individuals for taxation purposes - Social Security Trust FundSocial Security Trust FundIn the United States, the Social Security Trust Fund is a fund operated by the Social Security Administration into which are paid contributions from workers and employers under the Social Security system and out of which benefit payments to retirees, survivors, and the disabled, and general...
, the financial accounts for the U.S. retirement program
- Social Security Administration
- South African Social Security AgencySouth African Social Security AgencyThe South African Social Security Agency is a national agency of the South African Government created in April 2005. SASSA was created to administer the application, approval and payment of social grants in South Africa...
, an agency of the South African government - Department of Social SecurityDepartment of Social SecurityThe Department of Social Security is the name of a defunct governmental agency in the United Kingdom.The DSS replaced the older Department of Health and Social Security, from 1988 until 2001, when it was itself largely replaced as a department of the Government of the United Kingdom by the...
, an agency of the United Kingdom government- Department of Health and Social SecurityDepartment of Health and Social SecurityThe Department of Health and Social Security was a ministry of the British government in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Social Services.-History:...
, its predecessor agency
- Department of Health and Social Security
- Social Security (play)Social Security (play)Social Security is a play by Andrew Bergman.It focuses on trendy Manhattan art gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn, whose life is upended when her Mineola housewife sister Trudy deposits their eccentric mother Sophie on the couple's doorstep while she and her husband Martin head to Buffalo to...
, a play by Andrew Bergman
See also
- Canada Pension PlanCanada Pension PlanThe Canada Pension Plan is a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program. It forms one of the two major components of Canada's public retirement income system, the other component being Old Age Security...
- Canadian Social Insurance - National InsuranceNational InsuranceNational Insurance in the United Kingdom was initially a contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment, and later also provided retirement pensions and other benefits...
(UK)