The term social assistance, some of which are also called social assistance. Generally speaking, relief is a passive poverty alleviation measure. Based on sympathy and charity, charity for the poor is mostly a temporary relief measure. However, aid reflects a positive poverty alleviation measure and is a long-term aid as a government responsibility. Therefore, the government's long-term assistance responsibility refers to a social security system in which the state provides special assistance to citizens who have lost their ability to work due to disasters and low-income citizens to maintain their minimum living standards. Social assistance is mainly to provide minimum living security for members of society, with the goal of helping the poor and vulnerable groups, and the target is the low-income groups in society. Social assistance embodies a strong humanitarian thought and is the last protection and safety net of social security.

Social insurance refers to a social security system that is enforced by the state through legislation, funded by workers, enterprises (employers) or communities, and established by the state to provide material assistance to workers themselves or their immediate family members when they lose their ability to work or temporarily lose their jobs due to old age, work injury, illness, maternity, disability, unemployment, death and other reasons. It has the functions of guaranteeing the basic livelihood of workers, maintaining social stability and promoting economic development.

Social welfare refers to the social insurance system that the state provides all citizens with funds and services aimed at ensuring a certain standard of living and improving the quality of life as much as possible. Generally speaking, the social welfare system has four characteristics: social welfare is the regulator of social contradictions; The introduction of every social welfare plan always has obvious utilitarian purpose, and always takes alleviating some prominent social contradictions as the ultimate goal; The universality of social welfare, social welfare is provided for all citizens, and the interest input is one-dimensional, that is, the service object does not need to pay fees, as long as citizens are within the scope defined by legislation and policies, they can get subsidized services that should be enjoyed according to regulations; Social welfare is a higher-level social insurance system than social insurance. It tries its best to improve the quality of life of its clients within the scope of national financial resources and on the basis of established living standards.

Social preferential treatment refers to a social security system in which the government or society gives pensions and preferential treatment to active duty, retired, demobilized, disabled soldiers and their families.

The specific contents of social special care include:

First, pensions. This is a kind of material comfort for the disabled and their families who died in the line of duty, including disability pension and death pension.

Second, preferential treatment. Preferential treatment refers to giving the preferential object good material or economic treatment, priority care and special services politically and materially.

Third, special care and socialized service. The state and society raise funds to build service facilities, such as sanatoriums for disabled revolutionary soldiers and sanatoriums for veterans with chronic diseases.

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