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  2. Unemployment benefits - Wikipedia

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    India follows a social insurance system for unemployment benefits much like its European counterparts. Unemployment allowance is given to workers in India who have contributed to the Employees' State Insurance for at least three years. The benefit is given for a maximum of one year and is either 50% of the average daily wage or Rs 35,000 a ...

  3. Unemployment benefits in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Social Security Act of 2018 mandates the government to provide unemployment benefits to private sector employees who were involuntarily separated from employment. [1] Unemployment benefit is also referred to as unemployment insurance or involuntary separation benefit. [2] The payments are sourced from the country's Social Security System ...

  4. Employment Development Department - Wikipedia

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    The Tax Branch, one of the largest tax collection agencies in the nation, handles all administrative, education, customer service, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of Unemployment Insurance Tax, Employment Training Tax, State Disability Insurance Tax, and Personal Income Tax withholding. [7]

  5. Public employee pension plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal Employees Retirement System - covers approximately 2.44 million full-time civilian employees (as of Dec 2005). [2]Retired pay for U.S. Armed Forces retirees is, strictly speaking, not a pension but instead is a form of retainer pay. U.S. military retirees do not vest into a retirement system while they are on active duty; eligibility for non-disability retired pay is solely based upon ...

  6. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Medicare differs from private insurance available to working Americans in that it is a social insurance program. Social insurance programs provide statutorily guaranteed benefits to the entire population (under certain circumstances, such as old age or unemployment). These benefits are financed in significant part through universal taxes.

  7. Railroad Retirement Board - Wikipedia

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    During fiscal year 2009, retirement survivor benefits of some $10.5 billion were paid to about 589,000 beneficiaries, while net unemployment-sickness benefits of $160 million, including over $10 million in temporary extended unemployment benefits under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, were paid to more than 40,000 claimants.

  8. Teacher Retirement System of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The entrance to the T.R.S. Building on Red River Street in Austin. Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a public pension plan of the State of Texas.Established in 1937, TRS provides retirement and related benefits for those employed by the public schools, colleges, and universities supported by the State of Texas and manages a $180 billion trust fund established to finance member benefits.

  9. Social protection in France - Wikipedia

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    At its origins (end of the nineteenth century), social protection has been built as a system of social insurance. Insurance was tied to the exercise of an occupation and the benefits were provided in case of the risk of loss of income due to the forced inactivity (accident, sickness, unemployment, old age). It only covered workers and their ...