Social Security and Income Maintenance: A Study of Welfare Provision and Citizenship

LC564 CITIZENSHIP
COMMUNITY AND
WELFARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Welfare provision........................................................................................................................3
Citizenship...................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Social security refers as the federal program that provides the benefit to the retired workers
to improve their living standards. Income maintenance is the governmental program that aims to
provide the financial help to the people who are in extreme need so that they can easily manage
their certain income level (Bowman, Thornton and Mallett, 2019). In UK current schemes
involve national insurance scheme (NIS) has been provided which address the unemployment,
retirement that involves the cash benefits. Other schemes are also provided which are National
health service (NHS), they provide the free treatment for optical, dental and other medical
services and other schemes such as statutory payment to employees which are paternity and
maternity leaves etc. Unemployment and disability and pension are the main issues which the
social security aims to deal with it (Scheibelhofer and Holzinger, 2018). As for the pension
concern government is not completely involved in such activity but they incorporate with it. For
the disable people there is a provision implemented by the UK government to provide the
disability living allowance which is tax free advantage to the disable people, it aims to provide
the personal care services to those people who are mentally and physically disabled.
As for the example it is found that most of the elderly people are isolated from their
families as they get retired from their job. Thus in such there are running of different
organisation that aims to improvise the living standards of such people and make them able to
enjoy their after life.
UK government have provided various benefits through the social security schemes, it helps
in empowering their people. This essay will be going to cover the discussion over the social
security and income maintenance, it will covers the points which are welfare provision and
citizenship. Moving on further in Welfare point it will highlights the understanding of the
problem, its particular needs and risks, it also discuss how it will impact the particular group of
people and the organisations that delivers such services. In such it will also describe the roles and
surveillance that are associated with the welfare provisions. Essay will covers the area in
citizenship which consist of inclusion of citizenship components, social and economic basis, it
also discuss the principles and values that are used to inform the social participation among
citizens. Later it will lay out the citizenship interaction with the other significant aspect of social
identity.