social insurance

1. Government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people;
   Financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue (synset 101089102)
   is a type of: public assistance, social welfare, welfare - governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need
   subtypes:

   • national insurance - social insurance program in Britain; based on contributions from employers and employees; provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services
   • national assistance, social assistance, supplementary benefit - benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law
   • social security - social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance
   • unemployment compensation - payment by a United States agency to unemployed people
   • disability insurance - social insurance for the disabled
   • health care - social insurance for the ill and injured

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