Social Security Organization

Social Security Organization
سازمان تامین اجتماعی
Agency overview
Formed 1975
Jurisdiction Islamic Republic of Iran
Headquarters Tehran, Iran
Agency executive
Parent agency Ministry of Welfare and Social Security (Iran)
Website www.tamin.ir

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 is compulsory for all employees.[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]

  1. Retirement, disability and death;
  2. Unemployment;
  3. Old-age;
  4. Helplessness, loss of caretaker and social vulnerabilities;
  5. Accidents and injuries;
  6. Physical, mental and psychic disability;
  7. Health care and medical insurance;
  8. Protecting mothers especially during the maternity period and child-rearing;
  9. Protecting orphan children and unprotected women;
  10. Planning particular insurance system for widows, old women and self-dependent women;
  11. Poverty and inequity alleviation;
  12. 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

Affiliated institutions

See also

References

  1. 1 2 http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/gi/history
  2. ↑ "Development Progress". World Bank. June 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-12. |contribution= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ Rouznameh, Rasmi (November 20, 1990). "Labour Code". International Labour Organization. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
  4. ↑ http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/finance/resource
  5. ↑ https://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2004-2005/asia/iran.html
  6. ↑ http://www2.tamin.org.ir/web/sso-en/gi/comprehens
  7. 1 2 3 http://www.tamin.ir/News/Item/607/2/607.html
  8. ↑ http://www.tehran.sso.ir/web/sso-en/sp/sso/affiliate/investment

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