What items does social security cover?

Social insurance includes endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance, medical insurance and maternity insurance.

(1) Old-age insurance: that is, when workers lose their ability to work due to old age, they will be given living expenses and daily care in their old age.

(2) Unemployment insurance: that is, the payment of living expenses and medical expenses during unemployment, as well as job-changing training, self-help in production, job introduction and other safeguard measures.

(3) Work-related injury insurance: that is, it compensates the wages of workers who are injured at work and temporarily or permanently lose their ability to work, and it is also a medical care and life care measure for workers injured at work.

(4) Medical insurance: that is, income subsidies and medical insurance for employees during their illness.

(5) Maternity insurance: that is, income subsidies and safeguard measures for female employees during childbirth.

Legal basis: Social Insurance Law Article 2 The state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, etc., to protect citizens' right to get material help from the state and society according to law in case of old age, illness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.