What are the functions of social security?

1. Social security is the protector of labor reproduction

One of the functions of social security is to give workers and their families the necessary protection of basic life and livelihood when labor reproduction encounters obstacles to sustain the needs of labor reproduction, so as to ensure that social reproduction is carried out normally.

2. Social security is the stabilizer of social development

Through social security, social wealth is redistributed to appropriately narrow the income gap between members of various social strata, to avoid the disparity between the rich and the poor, so that members of the community's basic life is guaranteed, social relations can be coordinated, and social stability is maintained.

3, social security is the regulator of economic development

Social security on the regulation of economic development is mainly reflected in the automatic regulation of aggregate social demand.

4, social security has the function of promoting development

Social security system in the early stage of the creation of social security system may be mainly reflected in the stabilization and regulation function, but the development of the development of the function of promoting development has been obvious.

5. Social security has the function of mutual assistance

Social security essentially embodies reciprocal mutual assistance as well as other help and self-help in reciprocal mutual assistance. Social security adopts the mechanism of responsibility sharing, so it is a kind of mutual assistance as the cornerstone and in mutual assistance to make the risk be resolved.

Expanded Information

From the level, social security can be divided into the following three levels:

1. Economic

That is to say, the economic protection of the national life, which is realized through the way of cash payment or assistance, and solves the problem of the national economic resources when they encountered the difficulties of life.

2. Services

That is, in response to the changes in family structure and the weakening of the function of self-protection, services are provided to meet the needs of nationals for personal life care services. Such as elderly services, rehabilitation services, children's services and so on.

3. Spiritual

In addition to the demand for economic security and service security, people in real life can not be separated from the corresponding emotional security, that is, spiritual comfort is also a necessary part of a normal, healthy life.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Social Security