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Finland Income Security Programs Classified as Social Insurance
Finland, like the other Nordic countries, divided most
of its
social programs into those that guaranteed income security
and
those that provided social and health services. Income
security
programs came in two categories: social insurance, which
provided
income despite old age, illness, pregnancy, unemployment,
or
work-related injuries; and income security classified as
welfare,
which consisted of income transfers to aid families
through
measures such as child payments, maternity grants,
payments to
war victims and their survivors, and financial aid to
those
afflicted by disability or pressing needs. Programs of the
first
category, income security guarantees, took some 80 percent
of the
funds expended for social welfare (see
table 10, Appendix
A).
Data as of December 1988
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