» Overview
The Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), is the flagship of all ILO social security Conventions, as it is the only international instrument, based on basic social security principles, that establishes worldwide-agreed minimum standards for all nine branches of social security:
  • Health care
  • Sickness benefit
  • Unemployment
  • Old-age
  • Employment injury
  • Family benefit
  • Maternity
  • Invalidity
  • Survivors
Social security coverage may be provided through various mechanisms:
Following matrix gives a brief presentation of the 9 branches of social security as well as mechanisms to provide coverage and examples of schemes.


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   Universal benefits Social assistance Cash transfers Social insurance Microinsurance Linkages
Health care Access to health services Social insurance health Micro health insurance Linkage between health SSS and CBS
Sickness benefit
Unemployment
Old-age Minimum pensions Minimum pensions
Employment injury
Family benefit school grant
Maternity
Invalidity
Survivors