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What Is Social Security? Per Wikipedia, Social Security primarily refers social welfare service concerned with social protection, or protection against sociallyrecognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability,unemployment and others. Although some publications use the terms"social security" and "social protection" interchangeably, socialsecurity is used both more narrowly (to refer only to schemes with theformal title of 'social security') and more widely (referring to manykinds of social welfare scheme). Social security may refer to:

social insurance - where people receive benefits or services in recognition of contributions to an insurance scheme. These services typically include provision for retirement, pensions disabilty insurance, survivor benefits and unemployment.
income maintenance - mainly the distribution of cash in the event of interruption of employment, including retirement, disability and unemployment
services - provided by administrations responsible for social security. In different countries this may include medical care, aspects of social work and even industrial relations.
More rarely, the term is also used to refer to basic security, a term roughly equivalent to access to basic necessities - things such as food, clothing, shelter, education and medical care
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security

Social Security is a worldwide term. In 1927, a worldwide organization, The International Social Security Association (ISSA) was founded. Members include Social security organizations throughout the world. They are an international organization which brings together institutions and administrative bodies dealing with one or more aspects of social security in different countries of the world, namely all forms of compulsory social protection which, by virtue of legislation or national practice, are an integral part of the social security system of these countries. For a detailed listing of their members which include many of the major Countries, please visit their Website at http://www.issa.int

Other informative websites on this topic are listed in our directory below:

Canada http://www.sdc.gc.ca/en/isp/cpp/cpptoc.shtml

United States http://www.socialsecurity.gov

Antigua and Barbuda http://www.socialsecurity.gov.ag/

Belize http://www.socialsecurity.org.bz/

Bermuda http://www.socialinsurance.gov.bm/

Cato Institute http://www.socialsecurity.org

France http://www.securite-sociale.fr/

United Kingdom http://www.dwp.gov.uk/

Switzerland http://www.fk.se/privatpers

Jordan http://www.ssc.gov.jo/

Luxembourg http://www.secu.lu/

Philippines http://www.sss.gov.ph/sss/index.htm

Guyana http://www.sdnp.org.gy/mohss

St Lucia http://www.stlucianis.org/

Grenada http://www.nisgrenada.org/

Columbia http://www.iss.gov.co/

Netherlands http://www.kennisring.nl/smartsite.dws?id=37009

Ukraine http://www.mlsp.gov.ua/control/uk/index

Uganda http://www.nssfug.org/

Northern Ireland http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/ssa.htm

Zimbabwe http://www.nssa.org.zw/