Social security is a social welfare service which normally deals with all kind of social issues like poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others. Most people or some publication also used term social protection for it because it deals most of social issues for social protection or protection against social recognized conditions. For handling all these social issue a legal authorization is needed so for dealing with all these social issues legally in between law a law called social security law is introduced.
Social security may also refer to social insurance which covers all issues like provision for retirement pensions, disability insurance, survivor benefits and unemployment insurance. Through this receive benefits in recognition of contribution to an insurance scheme. It may also refer to the income maintenance for the distribution of cash in the event of interruption of employment, including retirement, disability and unemployment. In different countries social security also include medical care, aspect of social work and even industrial relation. Those services provided by administration are responsible for social security. All basic needs of human are also come under social security but we also refer term basic security for it.
International Social Security Association
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) is the principal international organization bringing together national social security administrations and agencies. This association was founded in 1927, the ISSA has 350 member organizations in 149 countries. It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in the International Labour Office (ILO).
The main aim of this association is to work at a international level for all issues of social securities and for the promotion and development of social security throughout the world. This association also works on the basis of social justice in order to advance or the social and economic condition of the population.
History of International Social Security Association
This association was founded with the support of international labour organization on 4th October 1927, in Brussels (Belgium), as the International Conference of Sickness Insurance Funds and Mutual Benefit Societies. The name was changed in 1936, in Prague (Czechoslovakia), to the International Social Insurance Conference (CIMAS). The present name was adopted in 1947, in Geneva (Switzerland), together with a new Constitution.
