social security

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Introduction
The rationale for social security
Historical evolution
- Developments to c. 1900
- Developments since c. 1900
Methods of provision
- Legal liability
- Provident schemes
- Social insurance
- Benefits to all residents
- Social assistance
- Negative income tax
Cash benefit programs
- Pension schemes
- Pension age and dependents
- Disability and sickness benefits
- Unemployment benefits
- Family, maternity, and parental allowances
- Benefits for survivors and single parents below pension age
- Variations in provision between countries
Benefits in kind
- National health schemes
- Provision of health benefits
Administration and finance
- Administration of social security
- Financing of social security
- The rising cost of social security
Criticisms

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Brian Abel-Smith

Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1965–91. Author of The Poor and the Poorest and others.

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social security, any of the measures established by legislation to maintain individual or family income or to provide income when some or all sources of income are disrupted or terminated or when exceptionally heavy expenditures have to be incurred (e.g., in bringing up children or paying for health care). Thus social security may provide cash benefits to persons faced with sickness and disability, unemployment, crop failure, loss of the marital partner, maternity, responsibility for the care of young children, or retirement from work. Social security benefits may be provided in cash or kind for medical need, rehabilitation, domestic help during ...(100 of 18491 words)

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