What is social security?

The purpose of paying social security is to protect citizens' right to get material help from the state and society in accordance with the law in the case of old age, illness, work injury, unemployment and childbirth.

Social insurance is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for those who lose their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. The main items of social insurance include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.

1. Old-age insurance is a social insurance system in which workers get certain economic compensation, material help and services from the government and society after reaching the statutory retirement age.

2. The basic medical insurance system for urban employees is a social insurance system based on the affordability of finance, enterprises and individuals to ensure the basic medical needs of employees. All employers, including enterprises (state-owned enterprises, collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises, etc. ), organs, institutions, social organizations, private non-enterprise units and their employees must participate in the basic medical insurance. The basic medical insurance fund for urban workers consists of the basic medical insurance social pooling fund and individual accounts. The basic medical insurance premium consists of the employer and the employee's personal account.

3. Industrial injury insurance is also called occupational injury insurance. After a worker suffers from accidental injuries due to work or occupational diseases due to exposure to occupational hazards such as dust, radiation and toxic substances, the state and society shall provide necessary material assistance to the disabled and the relatives of the deceased.

4. Unemployment insurance is a system which is enforced by the state through legislation, and funds are set up by the society to provide material assistance to workers whose livelihood is temporarily interrupted due to unemployment. All kinds of enterprises and their employees, institutions and their employees, social organizations and their employees, private non-enterprise units and their employees, and employees with whom state organs have established labor contracts shall apply for unemployment insurance.

Maternity insurance is aimed at the physiological characteristics of fertility behavior. According to the law, when working women temporarily stop working and lose their normal source of income due to childbirth, the state or society provides them with material help.

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Unemployment insurance refers to a system that is enforced by the state through legislation, and the employers, employees' individual contributions and state financial subsidies jointly raise funds to establish an unemployment insurance fund to provide material help to workers who have temporarily suspended their lives due to unemployment, to ensure their basic livelihood, and to create conditions for their re-employment through vocational training and employment introduction.

Unemployment insurance refers to a system that is enforced by the state through legislation and established by the society to provide material assistance to workers who have temporarily interrupted their sources of livelihood due to unemployment, thus ensuring the basic livelihood of unemployed people during unemployment and promoting their re-employment.

In our country, the unemployed are satisfied: employment is not interrupted by their own will; Have been registered as unemployed and have job requirements; To participate in unemployment insurance according to the regulations, the unit and I have fulfilled the payment obligation 1 year according to the prescribed three conditions before they can enjoy unemployment insurance benefits. The treatment mainly involves the following aspects:

(1) monthly unemployment insurance, that is, the basic living expenses paid by the unemployment insurance agency to eligible unemployed people according to regulations.

(two) medical subsidies during the period of receiving unemployment insurance benefits, that is, subsidies for medical expenses incurred during the period of receiving unemployment insurance benefits.

(3) Funeral grants for the death of the unemployed during the period of receiving unemployment insurance benefits and pensions for supporting the immediate family members of their spouses.

(four) to compensate the institutions that provide vocational training and job introduction to the unemployed during the period of receiving unemployment insurance benefits, or the personnel who receive vocational training and job introduction, and help them find jobs again.