The Social Security Institution ( tr, Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu (SGK)) is the governing authority of the

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social security Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specificall ...

system. It was established by the Social Security Institution Law No:5502, which was published in the Official Gazette No: 26173 on June 20, 2006. This brought five different retirement systems that affected

civil servants The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

, contractual paid workers, agricultural paid workers, and

self-employed Self-employment is the state of working for oneself rather than an employer. Tax authorities will generally view a person as self-employed if the person chooses to be recognised as such or if the person is generating income for which a tax return n ...

workers into a single

retirement Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...

system offering equal actuarial rights and obligations.

Short term benefits

Work accident and occupational disease

Work accident A work accident, workplace accident, occupational accident, or accident at work is a "discrete occurrence in the course of work" leading to physical or mental occupational injury. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), more tha ...

s (described as when the insurance holder is at the workplace, in another area working under an elephant, in another area allocated for breastfeeding as per labor legislation, or in a vehicle provided by an employer while en route from work to home or vice versa) "causes, at short notice or later, physical or mental handicap in the insurance holder." SSI mandates such accidents be reported by employers to "local law enforcement agencies immediately and to the SSI no later than three workdays after accident occurs." If the insurance holder is self-employed, they must contact the Institution directly with work accident and occupational disease notification "within 3 working days after their health status are good enough to report, provided that this recovery period does not exceed one month." An occupational disease refers to a temporary or permanent disease caused by "the quality of the work carried out by the insurance holder or by

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s."

Sickness

Sickness "refers to discomfort causing the incapacity of the insurance holders, who work on service contract and on their own name and account, due to the reasons other than work accident or occupational disease."

Maternity insurance

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insurance refers to the Disease, sickness and

invalidity Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be Cognitive disability, cognitive, Developmental disability, dev ...

statuses of an insured woman or the spouse of a male insurance holder working on service contract or who receives income or pension caused by the pregnancy or maternity status. Maternity insurance "starts from the date of

pregnancy Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops ( gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb). A multiple pregnancy involves more than one offspring, such as with twins. Pregnancy usually occurs by sexual intercourse, but ca ...

up to the first eight weeks or, in case of multi-delivery, up to the first ten weeks following delivery." They are also eligible for Temporary Incapacity Allowance.

Long term benefits

Old age insurance

Old age

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is a mandatory social insurance contribution that allows the insured to have an old age payment when they reach a specific age. Payment is available in

pension A pension (, from Latin ''pensiō'', "payment") is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments ...

and

lump-sum A lump sum is a single payment of money, as opposed to a series of payments made over time (such as an annuity). The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development distinguishes between "price analysis" and "cost analysis" by whether th ...

form.

Invalidity insurance

Invalidity insurance is a mandatory social insurance (with premiums) "that allows insurance holders to have invalidity pension provided that the status of invalidity is determined and certain conditions, are met." If the insured person is determined by the ISS Health Committee to have lost working power (or a minimum 60% earning power in their profession due to work accident or occupational disease), they may be eligible for a pension or lump-sum payment dependent on other factors such as how long they have held insurance.

Survivors' insurance

Survivors' insurance is a compulsory and contributory insurance "which provides a monthly pension to survivors including spouse, children and parents in case the insurance holders become deceased due to a reason other than work accident and occupational diseases. The rights provided under survivors’ insurance are survivors’ pension, death grant, marriage allowance for the girls who are receiving monthly pension and funeral allowance." A pension is dependent on other factors such as how long they have held insurance and if they received disability or old age insurance.

Marriage benefit

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benefit "shall be payable in advance, for once, at the amount of two years of pension or income they receive, upon marriage and request of the daughters, whose income or pensions should be terminated due to marriage."

Funeral benefit

Funeral benefit "shall be payable to the right holders of the insurance holder who deceased when receiving permanent incapacity income due to work accident or occupational disease, invalidity, duty disability or old-age pension or when minimum 360 days of invalidity, old-age and survivors insurance premiums are notified" for themselves.

References

External links

Official website of the Social Security Institution
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