group insurance.

Social Assistance:

Social assistance refers to the assistance rendered by the Government to the needy persons without
asking them to make contributions to be entitled to get such assistance. In other words, social
assistance includes those benefits which are provided by the Government without any contribution
from workers and employers. Workmen’s compensation, maternity benefits, old age pensions, etc.
are the examples of social assistance.

2. Social Insurance:

Social insurance refers to a scheme of maintaining fund from the contributions made by the
employees and employer, with or without a subsidy from the Government. In other words, social
insurance can be defined as a device to provide benefits as of right for persons of small earnings; in
amounts which combine the contributive efforts of the insured with subsidies from the employer
and the Government Examples of social insurance are provident fund and group insurance.