Benefits - Kyufuhi

…The cost required to implement a social security system. This includes the costs of facility maintenance, operation, and administrative costs, in addition to the benefits paid directly to recipients in the form of cash or in kind, but it usually refers to benefits in most cases. Social security costs are classified and published by type of accident (such as illness, old age, survivors, disability, and poverty), by type of system or mechanism (such as public assistance, social insurance, and public health services), by individual system (such as health insurance, employees' pension insurance, and seamen's insurance), and by type of benefit (such as medical care, pensions, and others). However, the definition, scope, and classification methods of social security vary by international organization and national government, and are not necessarily uniform. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "benefit expenses" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…社会保障制度の実施に要する費用をいう。これには直接に受給者に対して現金または現物の形で支給される給付費のほかに，施設の整備費，運営費や事務費が含まれているが，ふつう給付費をさしている場合が多い。社会保障費は，疾病，老齢，遺族，障害，貧困などの事故別や，公的扶助，社会保険，公共保健サービスなどの制度ないし仕組みの種類別，もしくは健康保険，厚生年金保険，船員保険など個々の制度別，医療，年金，その他など給付内容の種類別に分類されて作成され発表されているが，社会保障の定義や範囲，分類方法などはそれぞれの国際機関や各国政府によってまちまちで，必ずしも一様ではない。…

※「給付費」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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