Social Services and Social Insurance

1963 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-94
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance

scholarly journals Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 462-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Ikegami
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Service Levels

Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available in 1995/1996. The applicant’s level of dependence is assessed by the medical team of the social insurance plan. Japan basically followed this model but, unlike Germany where those eligible may opt for cash benefits, they are limited to services. Benefits are set more generously in Japan because, prior to its implementation in 2000, health insurance had covered long-stays in hospitals and there had been major expansions of social services. These service levels had to be maintained and be made universally available for all those meeting the eligibility criteria. As a result, efforts to contain costs after the implementation of the LTC Insurance have had only marginal effects. This indicates it would be more efficient and equitable to introduce public LTC Insurance at an early stage before benefits have expanded as a result of ad hoc policy decisions.

Digitalization and protection of citizens' rights compulsory social insurance

2021 ◽  
pp. 398-401
Author(s):  
A.Yu. Gusev
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
English Version ◽  
Social Insurance Fund ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Basic Approaches

The subject of this article was the issues related to the protection of the rights of citizens in the field of compulsory social insurance in the conditions of digitalization. It is shown that in order to ensure effective and safe conditions for the use of digital technologies, it is necessary to include universal basic approaches in the legal regulation. Specific examples of how the tasks of digitalization of social services in the field of social security are currently actively implemented by the social insurance Fund of the Russian Federation are given. English version of the article is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/digitalization-and-protection-of-citizens-rights-in-compulsory-social-insurance/71242.html

scholarly journals The Impact of War on Welfare State Development in Germany

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Starke
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
World War ◽  
State Development ◽  
Welfare State Development ◽  
The Impact

The world wars were important ‘pacemakers’ of welfare state development in Germany—first and foremost via special wartime or post-war benefit regimes. Veterans’ pensions and reinsertion after World War I and compensation of various war victims after World War II massively increased social spending for decades. Whenever war did have a significant impact on the core welfare state programmes (i.e. the big social insurance schemes), it was through indirect and long-term rather than direct, short-term dynamics. Labour mobilization via the involvement of trade unions and the significant expansion of wartime social assistance and social services during World War I, for example, paved the way for the expansion of the welfare state in the Weimar Republic (such as unemployment insurance in 1927). Social policy during World War II targeted benefits towards soldiers’ families and ethnic German victims, but it was far from the ‘dictatorship of favours’ Götz Aly describes.

4. The welfare state 1.0

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Garland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Poor Laws ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
The Welfare State

The newly-emergent welfare states shared a distinctive set of features that set them apart both from the old poor laws and from state socialism. ‘The Welfare State 1.0’ identifies these defining features and describes how welfare states are structured. Welfare states generally have five institutional sectors: social insurance; social assistance; publicly funded social services; social work and personal social services; and economic governance. The WS 1.0 forms that predominated from the 1940s until the 1980s are described. Another feature of the welfare state landscape is sometimes called the ‘hidden welfare state’; it consists of welfare benefits that are channelled through the tax system or through private employment contracts.

scholarly journals Social Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis in China in 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Lu ◽  
Zehao Cai ◽  
Bin Chen ◽  
Tao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Player

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has catapulted China into a serious social and political crisis. This article focuses upon how Chinese social policy has responded to the Covid-19 crisis. It reveals that the Chinese welfare state has woven a comprehensive social safety net to mitigate the social suffering of Chinese society in the mid- and post-crisis periods. Different types of social policy programs have been combined and synthesized, including social insurance, social assistance, and social welfare arrangements. Facing the challenges of the new risks caused by the pandemic, the collaboration of the Chinese state and intermediary social welfare organizations has played a crucial role in providing both cash benefits and social services (benefits in kind). For the first time, social policy in China has acted as a major player for coping with the negative outcomes of a pandemic. This article concludes that the pandemic-related crisis has justified an interventionist approach and logic, driven by the state’s welfare system, which favors a model of “big government”. However, this model also requires justification and legitimation.

scholarly journals Financing social protection in Ukraine on the basis of EU best practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 11/2 (-) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Liubov PETYK ◽  
Marta KORZH
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The paper analyzes the main aspects of the organization and support of territorial communities in the field of social security of the population of Ukraine. The main directions of development of the process of providing social services are outlined. The main instruments of budget financing of social protection and social security of the population of Ukraine are determined and the effects that affect the volume of expenditures of the State and Consolidated budgets on the social sphere are investigated. The existing problems in the field of social security are studied and the need to harmonize social standards with the standards of the European Union is emphasized. The thesis is put forward on the need to implement a number of measures for Ukraine's timely response to the sharp increase in socio-economic needs in the global crisis. Emphasis is placed on the problems and prospects for the development of social security in the decentralization process. The range of problems for the effective response of social policy to rapid changes in the development of the modern world economy is outlined. The necessity of the analysis of the EU experience in the field of social security and the need to adapt the best European practices in order to comply with the Western European models of social protection and / or social insurance is substantiated. The need to apply the tools of theoretical and methodological analysis of the conceptual foundations of sustainable development of social security to specific circumstances and realities in Ukraine. The study focuses on the relevance of strategic and operational objectives of the new Law of Ukraine "On Social Services" and the need for further harmonization of existing legislation with the basic standards of the Council of Europe and the European Union.

scholarly journals European social model - instrument of cohesion between the states of the European Union

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Sacara ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Social Model ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Models ◽  
European Social Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Governance

The European Union is currently a real catalyst for change regarding the state governance, policy-making and the imposition of social models in the European space. The member States of the European Community have their own ways of developing social policies, which regulate social assistance, social insurance, the organization and functioning of the social services system, etc., yet the European institutions coordinate the adopted regulations and establish common principles, values, and objectives. Nowadays, more and more often, politicians, decision makers, doctrinaire people question the concept of “European social model” and prerogatives for its development. In this context, we set out to analyze the concept and features of the European social model and to identify existing social models at EU level.

scholarly journals Employee benefits under IAS/IFRS and the Czech accounting legislation, the tax point of view including

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 179-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Otavová ◽  
Jana Gláserová
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Base Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Employee Benefits ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Employment Benefits ◽  
Net Profit ◽  
The Impact

The regulation of employee benefit is limited in the Czech Accounting Legislation. There are only short-term employee benefits – wages, salaries, when employees has rendered services to an entity during a period – month. Entities could create funds from a net profit –fund for social and cultural benefits which could serve as source of social services financing for employees. There are employee benefits defined very extensive in IAS/IFRS. It is IAS 19 – Employee Benefits which defines four Gross of employee benefits: short-term employee benefits, post employment benefits, other long –term employee benefits and termination benefits. There are defined all conditions for employee benefits re­co­gni­tion and treatments for recording and reporting in IAS 19.The paper is concerned with the employee benefits evaluation. The impact on the tax base is eva­lua­ted. There are the most significant types of employee benefits surveyed. They are divided into five groups with the respect to their impact on the tax base. The impact of these benefits is described from their impact on social insurance and health insurance calculation base point of view, as well.

scholarly journals Is There Room for Targeting within Universalism? Finnish Social Assistance Recipients as Social Citizens

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Paula Saikkonen ◽  
Minna Ylikännö
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Flat Rate ◽  
Income Transfers ◽  
National Register Data

This article focuses on the role of means-tested social assistance in Finland, which is often considered one of the Nordic welfare states described as having a universal welfare model. The article scrutinises the capacity of the final safety net to enhance the social citizenship of social assistance recipients. The Finnish social security system combines social insurance (earnings-related benefits), universal benefits (flat-rate benefits), free or affordable public services, and social assistance as a means-tested and targeted element, and thus it is a discussion on the degree of universalism that best captures the nature of universalism in the Finnish welfare state. Because the final safety net includes public services (especially social work) and income transfers (especially social assistance), its ability to strengthen social citizenship depends on both elements—separately and as a combination—as there may be a simultaneous need for financial aid and services. Whilst national registers provide data on social assistance, there is no national register data on municipal social services, which is why a survey was conducted. In this study, the heterogenic clients supported by the final safety net were described based on an open-ended question in the survey data. Statistics were then used to evaluate the frequency of client groups (capable clients, persistent clients, invisible clients, safety net dropouts). The article concludes that universalism as a social policy principle is challenged by the diversity of the clientele.

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