Social insurance is a form of social welfare that provides insurance against economic risks. The insurance may be provided publicly or through the subsidizing...

A social insurance number (SIN) (French: numéro d'assurance sociale (NAS)) is a number issued in Canada to administer various government programs. The...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD or SSDI) is a payroll tax-funded federal insurance program of the United States government. It is managed by...

The Social Insurance Institution (Polish: Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, ZUS) is a Polish state organization responsible for social insurance located...

In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and is administered...

The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) is a Saudi Arabian government agency concerned with social insurance in the country. GOSI is supervised...

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain...

national social health insurance system, with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck's Sickness Insurance Law of 1883. In Britain, the National Insurance Act...

Department of Social Protection, on behalf of Ireland's Minister for Social Protection. The PPS Number was known as the Revenue and Social Insurance Number (RSI...

The Social Security System (SSS; Filipino: Paseguruhan ng Kapanatagang Panlipunan) is a state-run, social insurance program in the Philippines to workers...

Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Swedish: Försäkringskassan, pronounced [fœˈsɛːkrɪŋsˌkasːan]) is a government agency that administers social insurance in Sweden...

The Beveridge Report, officially entitled Social Insurance and Allied Services (Cmd. 6404), is a government report, published in November 1942, influential...

The Social Insurance Agency (社会保険庁, Shakaihoken-chō) was an agency administered by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. After a scandal...

dependants. In 1944 a separate Ministry of National Insurance (titled the Ministry of Social Insurance until 17 November 1944) was formed; the two merged...

listed systems might also be considered social insurance. Argentina – Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social Armenia – Pensions in Armenia Australia:...

The Social Insurance Institute (ISSH) (Albanian: Instituti i Sigurimeve Shoqërore) is an Albanian government agency that administers the coverage of pensions...

The National Insurance number is a number used in the United Kingdom in the administration of the National Insurance or social security system. It is...

United States, health insurance helps pay for medical expenses through privately purchased insurance, social insurance, or a social welfare program funded...

The Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO) (German: Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen, BSV, French: Office fédéral des assurances sociales, OFAS, Italian:...

such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifically to social insurance programs which provide support...

National Insurance (NI) is a fundamental component of the welfare state in the United Kingdom. It acts as a form of social security, since payment of...

deductions in workers' wages and from employers' contributions. This social health insurance model, named the Bismarck Model after Prussian Chancellor Otto...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part of Roosevelt's...

approximately $2.3 trillion on federal and state social programs including cash assistance, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and...

Disability Insurance, often called DI or disability income insurance, or income protection, is a form of insurance that insures the beneficiary's earned...

Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of...

amount of social welfare legislation in this period. Mandatory sickness insurance was introduced in 1883, with workplace accident insurance enacted in...

Employees' State Insurance Corporation (abbreviated as ESIC) is one of the two main statutory social security bodies under the administrative control...

States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program...

Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made...