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social security
[ soh-shuhl si-kyoor-i-tee ]
noun
- Usually Social Security. 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. Compare OASDI ( def ).
- the theory or practice of providing economic security and social welfare for the individual through government programs maintained by funds from public taxation.
social security
noun
- public provision for the economic, and sometimes social, welfare of the aged, unemployed, etc, esp through pensions and other monetary assistance
- often capitals a government programme designed to provide such assistance
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of social security1
Example Sentences
Such policies are raising the cost of living and sinking the value of retirement savings, threatening Social Security and the deportation of citizens and others without due process, she said.
“Right now, these Republicans are hiding from their constituents. They’re not standing up for them, and they’re voting against their constituents’ interests on Medicaid, closing Social Security offices, and cutting public education.â€
Instead, they wanted to know exactly what levers Democrats are pulling right now to prevent or at least slow down the president’s attacks on Medicare, Social Security, education, and immigration.
Inflation hasn’t begun to spike and there aren’t yet any empty shelves at Walmart and Home Depot and Target, and nobody has had their Social Security numbers sold to crypto kings operating out of Pacific islands nobody has ever heard of.
And according to the Washington Post, the leadership has made the decision to party like it's 2005 and focus on cuts to Social Security:
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