social insurance
Noun
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is a type of: public assistance, social welfare, welfare - governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in needsubtypes:
- 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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