SOCIAL QUESTIONS|migration · SOCIAL QUESTIONS|social protection|social security
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- special scheme for self-employed persons | special scheme for self-employed workers
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- Definition In a social security system, a contibutory scheme especially designed for self-employed workers in contrast with a general scheme, which normally covers employed workers. The protection and benefits offerered by both schemes are not always identical, although they tend to be equivalent. Reference COUNCIL-EN
- Comment A social security system may have other contributory special schemes for certain categories of workers, for example, farmers, maritime professionals or civil servants.Several countries have special schemes, with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need, for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities and very old people.