Social Security Crises

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Social Security Crises

Introduction

The idea of the 'welfare state' is used to represent a model in which the state accepts responsibility for the welfare of its citizens. We need to plan and prepare a proper plan for retirement and not only depend on the Social Security. The core debate lies between a retirement plans, which provides welfare only when other means fail. The general sense that benefits should be provided like right has eroded, and there is an increasing emphasis on the responsibilities, as well as the rights, of citizenship (Kennett, 2001).

Social security is often written about like, if it only concerned with the relief of poverty; countless of the key debates are about how to do that more effectively. However, social security is provided for many other reasons: they include prevention, social protection, redistribution and economic policy, as well as economic and social measures intended to benefit society as a whole. Further aims include compensation, income smoothing and the promotion of solidarity. There is much more to benefits than providing a safety net, or getting people back to work

International Influences on Social Policy

In the Global context, the changing role of the Global Union's institutions has influenced the development of social policies in a number of ways. This contrasts with the relatively limited role played by such institutions in shaping national social policy for much of the post-war period. One could argue that social policy has always been a key dimension of plans for a more integrated World, with social policy harmonization representing a professed aim of the first Global Economic Community (GEC). In this respect, the Treaty of Rome (1957), which established the GEC, included a number of social policy measures relating, for example, to the free movement of labor and the provision of equal pay for men and women (Clasen, 1999).

However, in practice, progress on harmonizing Global Community member states' social policies was confined to reaching agreement on broad policy goals for much of the 1960s and 1970s. Moreover, the growing influence of neoliberal economic and social policy thinking at the beginning of the 1980s challenged the basis for any form of supranational intervention into what were seen, especially in the United Kingdom, as largely domestic matters. The resulting policy blockages overcome by the Single Global Act (1986), which confirmed the need to 'improve the Community's economic and social situation by extending common ...