Social Security tax — ➔ tax1 * * * social security tax UK US noun [C or U] US GOVERNMENT, FINANCE, TAX ► money collected from employers and employees by the government to pay people when they retire or because they are ill, unemployed, etc.: »The current rate of… … Financial and business terms
Social Security Tax — The tax levied on both employers and employees used to fund the Social Security program. Social Security tax is usually collected in the form of payroll tax or self employment tax. The Social Security tax pays for the retirement and disability… … Investment dictionary
Social Security (United States) — This article is about the retirement/disability program. For the general concept of providing welfare, see Social security. For other uses, see Social Security (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Social Security debate (United States) — This article concerns proposals to change the Social Security system in the United States. Social Security is a social insurance program officially called Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI), in reference to its three components … Wikipedia
social security — 1. (usually caps.) a program of old age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups. 2. the theory or practice of… … Universalium
Social Security Wage Base — For the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) tax or Social Security tax, the Social Security Wage Base (SSWB) is the maximum earned gross income or upper threshold on which a wage earner s Social Security tax may be imposed. The… … Wikipedia
Social Security Act — A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people. Under the act, the government began collecting the Social Security tax from workers… … Investment dictionary
social security — noun 1 (BrE) money paid by the government to people who are poor, unemployed, etc. ⇨ See also ↑welfare … OF SOCIAL SECURITY ▪ system VERB + SOCIAL SECURITY ▪ be entitled to, claim, receive ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Social Security Disability Income Insurance — Program financed by the Social Security tax to provide assistance to disabled individuals with disabilities expected to last at least one year, to compensate for lost income. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE — SOCIAL POLICY In the first three decades of statehood through the end of the 1970s Israel acquired the basic features of a modern welfare state. This meant that Israel succeeded in developing a broad network of social services that included… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
