What does the social security system include?

Hello, I'm glad to answer your question. China's social security is a complete system, including social insurance, social assistance, social welfare, special care and placement, social mutual assistance and personal savings accumulation guarantee. These social security are interrelated, complementary and indispensable.

Social security has the following basic characteristics: compulsion, universality, welfare, social fairness, basic security, mutual assistance and compulsion. Let's start with these characteristics. Generally speaking, compulsory means that social insurance is enforced by legislation, and the content and implementation of social security are carried out by law. Universality, social insurance requires socialization, and all enterprises and members of society who meet the legal requirements must participate. Welfare. Welfare means that social insurance is not for profit, and the implementation of social insurance is entirely to protect the basic life of social members and increase happiness. Social equity, social insurance, as a form of distribution, has obvious fairness characteristics. On the one hand, social insurance can't have a special class, and citizens under the same conditions get the same protection. On the other hand, in the process of forming and using insurance funds, the rights and obligations enjoyed by individuals are not strictly considered, thus reflecting a certain degree of social equity. Basic guarantee, the guarantee standard of social insurance is to meet the basic needs of the insured, and its fundamental purpose is to ensure people's income stability and life stability, and to play the role of social stabilizer. Mutual assistance, social insurance It is very good to collect social insurance premiums from units and individuals who have the obligation to pay fees in the form of law to establish a social security fund, which is used in the whole society to help the insured.

According to Article 2 of the Social Insurance Law, the state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance, so as to guarantee citizens' right to receive material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law when they are old, sick, injured, unemployed and have children.