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social insurance

any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, especially such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons.

social insurance

government insurance providing coverage for the unemployed, the injured, the old, etc: usually financed by contributions from employers and employees, as well as general government revenue See also social security national insurance social assistance

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1915–20

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They must now provide power, social insurance and infrastructure to a poor region.

In response, hard-pressed Americans now favor a thicker social insurance net.

Social insurance and retirement tax receipts rose $104 billion in fiscal 2013, up 18 percent.

Republicans shriek, cry socialism, and offer full resistance to any effort to expand social insurance.

In a modern social insurance state, all of us are both contributors and beneficiaries.

Even the purest selfishness would dictate a policy of social insurance.

Pensions and social insurance will be maintained by Germany and the Sarre Commission.

All rights acquired as to pensions and social insurance will be maintained by Germany and the Sarre Commission.

One of the most powerful arguments for “social insurance” is its very name.

To take just one example--we need to continue and complete the work of rounding out our system of social insurance.

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