Social Security Organization (Iran)
Social Security Organization (SSO) is a social insurer organization in Iran which provides coverage of wage-earners and salaried workers as well as voluntary coverage of self-employed persons. In 1975, the Social Security Law was approved and the SSO was established.[1]
Iran did not legislate in favor of a universal social protection, but in 1996, the Center of the Statistics of Iran estimated that more than 73% of the Iranian population was covered by social security.[2] Membership in the social security system for all employees is compulsory.[3]
SSO is a nongovernmental organization and it is solely financed by contributions (with participation of insured (7%), employer (20-23%) and government (3%)).[1][4][5] Social protection is extended to the self-employed workers, who voluntarily contribute between 12% and 18% of income depending on the protection sought. SSO provides the following services:[6]
- Retirement, disability and death;
- Unemployment;
- Old-age;
- Helplessness, loss of caretaker and social vulnerabilities;
- Accidents and injuries;
- Physical, mental and psychic disability;
- Health care and medical insurance;
- Protecting mothers especially during the maternity period and child-rearing;
- Protecting orphan children and unprotected women;
- Planning particular insurance system for widows, old women and self-dependent women;
- Poverty and inequity alleviation;
- Assistance and rescue.
Civil servants, the regular military, law enforcement agencies, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s second major military organization, have their own pension systems.
Statistics
- Number of insured (18–65 years old): 7.5 million (2005) [7]
- Retirees and beneficiaries: 1.2 million (old age, disabilities and survivors) (2005)[7]
Affiliated institutions
- The Social Security Investment Company (SSIC)
- Sadere Tamin Company (Tile and Ceramic)
- Tamin Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Company
- Tamin Gas and Oil Investment Company
- Tamin Pharmaceutical Investment Company
- Tamin Nourishment Investment Company
- Pars Hotels Investment Company
- Saba Tamin Company
- Iran Khanesazi Investment Company (housing)
- Refah Bank
- The Tamin ICT & Management Consultancy Service Company
- Social Security Auditing Company
- Social Security Real Estate Agency
- Kar & Tamin Company
- The SSO Milad-e-Salamat Health and Medical Institute
- Hekmat Medical Group Company (ltd.)
See also
References
- ^ a b http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/gi/history
- ^ "Iran: Country Brief". Development Progress. World Bank. June 2009. http://go.worldbank.org/KQD2RP3RX0. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
- ^ Rouznameh, Rasmi (November 20, 1990). "Labour Code". International Labour Organization. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/WEBTEXT/21843/64830/E90IRN01.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
- ^ http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/finance/resource
- ^ https://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2004-2005/asia/iran.html
- ^ http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/gi/comprehens
- ^ a b http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/gi/gs
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