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	Social security - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social security primarily refers to a field of social welfare concerned with social protection, or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment, families with children and others.
		Social security is seen as providing assistance to retired workers, often in the form of a superannuation system that provides a pension from a fund to which workers and their employers (and in most countries the government) have contributed throughout their working lives.
		Social security policy is usually applied through various programs designed to provide a population with income at times when they are unable to care for themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_security (1060 words)

	Sweden and the United Nations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sweden was one of the countries to initiate the establishment of a special department for humanitarian issues within the UN secretariat.
		Sweden is the fourteenth largest contributor to the UN budget and is one of the countries that meet the UN’s goal of 0.7% of GNP for development assistance.
		Sweden is working for the reform of the UN in different areas and has been one of the most active of the member states in efforts to adapt the UN to a new era and new demands.
	www.un.int /sweden/pages/sweden.htm (1479 words)

	Women and Social Security Reform
		Social Security will face severe financial problems in less than 15 years that will plague it as far in the future as it is possible to estimate.
		Social Security only pays survivors benefits if there are children under the age of 18, or if the widow receives lower benefits than her husband does.
		However, the Social Security Act requires that a marriage must last for at least ten years before a divorced woman is eligible to share her former husband's Social Security retirement benefits.
	www.heritage.org /research/socialsecurity/WM2.cfm?renderforprint=1 (2404 words)

	Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe in the 19th century, and shaped by a dogmatic Protestantism, until its natural assets â“ timber, iron ore, grains â“ allowed it to fund a Swedish welfare state in the early 20th century.
		Sweden was first mentioned in the 1st century, by Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote that the Suiones lived out in the sea and were powerful in both arms and ships.
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
	abcworld.net /Sweden.html (4094 words)

	EMIRE: SWEDEN - SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
		Social security law can be divided into three main elements: social insurance together with associated benefit schemes, social services, and medical and health care.
		The benefit schemes associated with social insurance concern family support of various kinds, principally a state child benefit (barnbidrag) which in accordance with the 1947 Child Benefit Act is paid, without means testing, to all families with children and (as at 2000) amounts to at least around 1100 euros per child per year.
		Social services, for which the municipal authorities are responsible, are regulated in the 1980 Social Services Act (to be replaced as from 2002 by a 2001 Act).
	www.eurofound.eu.int /emire/SWEDEN/ANCHOR-SOCIALR-Auml-TT-SE.html (244 words)

	Sociology of Aging
		Social policy discussions have shifted from a focus on improvement to one of crisis and budget cutting (Estes, 1991b).
		Understanding aging individuals in the context of social structures is important for professionals because social contexts define and shape the lives of the elderly.
		The rapid changes to social institutions that have occurred across the 20th century can be hard to continually adapt to, and older people may find themselves increasingly alienated, confused, and even estranged from the society in which they live.
	www.usc.edu /dept/gero/AgeWorks/core_courses/gero500_core/social_lect (7330 words)

	Pension Reform in Sweden: Lessons for American Policymakers
		Sweden was the first nation in the world to implement a universal government-run retirement system, but today it is in the process of privatizing part of its pension program.
		Sweden's former pension system was a tax-financed, pay-as-you-go entitlement program, similar to the United States' Social Security program.
		There are many benefits to Sweden's new system, including greater incentives to work, increased national savings, a flexible retirement age, lower taxes and less government spending, opportunities for more reform, a fairer system that no longer redistributes income from the poor to the rich, and greater retirement income for retirees.
	www.heritage.org /Research/SocialSecurity/bg1381es.cfm (756 words)

	Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2004 - Sweden
		There will be a gradual transition from the old to the new system for persons born between 1938 and 1953.
		Survivor pension: For the guaranteed survivor pension, the insured was resident in Sweden for at least 3 years.
		The maximum pension is 83,709 kronor a year, provided the insured had 40 years of residence in Sweden (including assumed years of residence between the age at the time of death and age 65) and the surviving spouse does not receive an income-related pension.
	www.ssa.gov /policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2004-2005/europe/sweden.html (3040 words)

	Socialism Today - Sweden's neo-Nazi menace
		As in the rest of Europe, the governments of the 1990s - both Social Democratic and Conservative coalitions - have attacked the right of asylum and the living standards of immigrants as part of the slaughter of the welfare state.
		Sweden's first big austerity budget in 1992 also hit sick-pay and pensions, and cut grants for refugees to £4.50 a day.
		Last autumn, the Social Democratic Justice Minister, Laila Freivalds, claimed that the police, well-known for their spying on socialist organisations, nowadays are 'only' watching neo-Nazis.
	www.socialismtoday.org /46/sweden.html (2868 words)

	U.S.-Swedish Social Security Agreement
		For Sweden, the agreement applies to retirement, disability and survivors benefits under Sweden’s basic and supplementary pension programs and to the taxes that must be paid under those programs.
		To establish your exemption from coverage under the U.S. Social Security system, your employer in Sweden must request a certificate of coverage (form SW/US 101) from the Swedish Regional Social Insurance Office for the region in which the Swedish employer is located.
		If you have Social Security credits in both the United States and Sweden, you may be eligible for benefits from one or both countries.
	www.ssa.gov /international/Agreement_Pamphlets/sweden.html (4066 words)

	Pension \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Pension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life.
		Although a lottery may provide a pension, the common use of the term is to describe the payments a person receives upon retirement.
		The United States Social Security system is an example of a defined benefit pension arrangement.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Pension (894 words)

	Expat Focus > > Content > > Country Guides - Sweden > > Sweden - Social Security
		On arrival in Sweden, you will need to apply for a social security number from the local tax office in order to be eligible for benefits.
		Applications for a social security ID card should be submitted to the tax office along with a passport sized photograph.
		The administration of social benefits is the responsibility of local authorities in Sweden, and applications for benefits should be submitted to the local social welfare office.
	www.expatfocus.com /expatriate-sweden-social-security (386 words)

	CRR Press Releases
		Sweden’s new pension system aims for a closer link between what people pay and what they get, guarantees a generous minimum pension to all, and is designed to ensure long-term fiscal stability according to a new study released today by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
		In addition, Sweden will rely more heavily on income taxes to fund some benefits, such as the guaranteed pension, that were previously financed by payroll taxes.
		Not surprisingly, designing Sweden’s ambitious pension overhaul took nearly a decade — with final Parliamentary approval occurring in 1998 — and the changes will be phased in gradually.
	www.bc.edu /centers/crr/pr_2000-03-15.shtml (468 words)

	Canada and Sweden sign revised Social Security Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The current agreement on Social Security between Canada and Sweden was signed in 1985 and came into force in 1986.
		The revised Social Security Agreement between Canada and Sweden ensures that Canadian workers can contribute to the Canada Pension Plan if their employer sends them to Sweden to work temporarily.
		Canada concludes international social security agreements to co-ordinate its Old Age Security Program and the Canada Pension Plan with comparable programs in other countries that provide retirement, old age, disability and survivor benefits.
	www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/cs/comm/news/2002/020131_e.shtml (614 words)

	Message to the Congress Transmitting the Sweden-United States Social Security Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Social Security Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95 - 216, 42 USC 433(e)(1)), I transmit herewith the Agreement between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden on Social Security which consists of two separate instruments.
		The U.S.-Sweden agreement is similar in objective to the social security agreements already in force with Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
		Such bilateral agreements, which are generally known as totalization agreements, provide for limited coordination between the United States and foreign social security systems to overcome the problems of gaps in protection and of dual coverage and taxation for workers who move from one country to the other.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1985/112585c.htm (184 words)

	WILLisms.com: Social Security Reform Thursday: Week Sixty-Five -- America Is Behind Sweden In Social Security Reform.
		Well, this document (.doc), sent from the administration to the Congress, outlines how some of Sweden's Social Security reforms are rendering our totalization agreement with that socialist paradise moot.
		It's just embarrassing that our Social Security system is so rickety and cantankerous and obsolete, that it can no longer play in the same league as Sweden's modernized, market-reformed system.
		We should have the classiest and most advanced Social Security system in the world, not the system that's too adherent to 1930-style socialism for the...
	www.willisms.com /archives/2006/11/social_security_54.html (1182 words)

	In Memory of Åsa Bäcklund
		There are other taxes, like tax on gas, food, cigarettes and alcohol and an annual tax fee, which is not much, to own a car (this is to uphold the good roads in our country, where we do not have ONE road or highway that has a toll system).
		If a person is on partial or full time early retirement or on disability for their handicap they will, regardless of age get a discount on all trains, flights and other means of communications..
		Sweden does have laws against discrimination, but the main thing is that our social security system is so good.
	www.saywhatclub.com /newsletter/AsaB/socialsecurity.html (1744 words)

	Ambrose: Politicians Cowardly on Social Security
		The restructuring of Social Security is a major, major issue, and if this democracy of ours is going to me more than a sham that only works occasionally and then by accident, men and women running for office need to say what they think.
		Social Security pays more than $450 billion in benefits each year.
		If nothing is done, by 2060, the combination of Social Security and Medicare will account for more than 71 percent of the federal budget.
	www.socialsecurity.org /daily/10-03-02.html (776 words)

	International Parental Child Abduction Sweden
		In Sweden a parent who refuses to obey a Swedish court order may, if there are special reasons, risk penalty of a fine in order to secure that he or she will entrust the other parent with the child.
		To register a child who was born either in Sweden or abroad as a Swedish citizen, the mother shows proof of her Swedish citizenship and the child’s birth certificate.
		Swedish passports: In Sweden, a passport for a child under the age of 18 cannot be issued unless the child’s custodians have agreed in writing.
	travel.state.gov /family/abduction_sweden.html (3511 words)

	CRR Issues in Brief
		In 1998, the Swedish Parliament passed pension legislation that transformed Sweden’s Social Security system to a Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) plan ¾ that is, a defined contribution plan financed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
		The old Swedish Social Security system provided a flat-rate benefit to ensure income security in old age and a supplementary old-age pension to provide an earnings-related pension.
		However, for workers in the lower half of the wage distribution, the link between contributions and benefits is blurred because of the offset between the income pension and the guarantee pension.
	www.bc.edu /crr/ib_3.shtml (1095 words)

	Social Security Causes Earlier Retirement
		Those are key findings of the second stage of an international research project to study the relationship between social security provisions and retirement.
		In Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation (NBER Working Paper No. 9407), NBER Research Associates Jonathan Gruber and David Wise report on the second stage of the project, which investigates the effect of social security retirement incentives on retirement decisions within each of these 12 nations.
		Canada has an entitlement age of 60 for social security benefits, but at such a low level that the reform plan's actuarial provision would significantly increase benefit levels, inducing more reti rements.
	www.nber.org /digest/jul03/w9407.html (616 words)

	Sweden
		Even the lowest paid workers are able to maintain a decent standard of living for themselves and their families through substantial benefits (such as housing or daycare support) provided by social welfare entitlement programs.
		Within limits protecting the public's immediate health and security, public employees also enjoy the right to strike.
		The law requires a rest period after 5 hours of work but does not stipulate a minimum duration; in practice it is usually 30 minutes.
	www.erieri.co.uk /freedata/HRCodes/SWEDEN.htm (1543 words)

	Chapter 1
		In particular, it shall be incumbent upon the public administration to secure the right to work, housing and education, and to promote social care and social security and a good living environment.
		No citizen who is resident in Sweden or who has been resident in Sweden may be deprived of his citizenship unless he becomes at the same time a national of another state, at his express consent or because he has taken employment in the public service.
		Sweden is divided into constituencies for the purpose of elections to the Parliament.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/sweden.html (10833 words)

	The Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Social Security has become one of FDR's most enduring legacies, but few remember the crucial role of Perkins in pushing to make the dream of Social Security a reality for all Americans.
		At a time when the Republicans in congress are attempting to jeopardize Social Security, we cannot allow them to gamble with the program and principles she fought so hard for.
		You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society.They felt they should have aspecial plan for themselves.
	www.saveoursecurity.org /a/2005/08/social_security_11.php (3375 words)

	Social Security Choice: August 2005 Archives
		Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall.com, who’s a helluva writer, is ready to poke Social Security reform with a stick.
		Unless Social Security is reformed substantially, by providing for the ownership of personal savings accounts that will permit stock and bond investments to finance benefits rather than tax hikes, the system will continue to deteriorate.
		The Social Security system suppresses opportunity by taking 12.4% of a worker’s income and dumping it into a system where younger workers will receive no return on their years of forced contributions.
	www.socialsecuritychoice.org /archives/2005/08 (4085 words)

	Social Insurance in Sweden - Other languages - Försäkringskassan
		During the past 50 years the social insurance offices were independent juristic entities under public legislation with a unique status in the government sector, supervised by the National Social Insurance Board.
		Each social insurance office, responsible for the activities on the regional level, was led by a committee.
		Survivors - Information about survivor’s pensions for those who are covered by the Agreement on social security between Sweden and Canada and who live outside Sweden.
	www.fk.se /sprak/eng (297 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Economic: Social Security
		Regie des rentes du Quebec - Aims to contribute to the financial security of Quebeckers and to inform the population of the importance of financial planning for retirement.
		Social Security Administration - Office of the Chief Actuary - Financial history and projections for the Social Security trust funds.
		AlterNet - Social Security Suicide - Casts a skeptical eye at the very assumptions made that Social Security is in deep trouble or needs to be severely changed.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Economic/Social_Security (926 words)

	FT.com / US / Social security - Delay to Social Security reform
		Top Republicans in Congress have decided to delay action on Social Security reform, blaming competing app-roaches and busy schedules for the setback to one of President George W. Bush's top priorities.
		Both Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate finance committee, and Bill Thomas, chairman of the House ways and means committee, had hoped their committees would work on Social Security legislation this month.
		But he is concentrating now on the fight to win approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and said this week that work on the retirement package would have to wait until Congress returned from its August break.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/fee756a4-f4b7-11d9-9dd1-00000e2511c8.html (459 words)

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