Social security generally refers to social insurance, which is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for people who have lost their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. The main items of social insurance include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.
The social insurance plan is organized by the government, forcing a certain group to use part of its income as social insurance tax (fee) to form a social insurance fund. Under certain conditions, the insured can get fixed income or loss compensation from the fund. It is a redistribution system, and its goal is to ensure the reproduction of material and labor and social stability.
The sharing subjects of social insurance premiums are countries, enterprises and individuals. The different combinations of these three subjects have produced many ways of sharing expenses. Even in the same country, different social insurance projects may adopt different insurance cost sharing methods, in which employers and employees pay the fees, and the government bears the ultimate responsibility.