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Function A Social Assistance
Function A Social Assistance
Function A Social Assistance
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Domain
Specialty “Social Assistance”
Work-Injury Compensation
This is the oldest and most widespread social welfare program. Such programs usually cover all
employees of firms above a specified size and are financed by employer contributions to some form of
insurance plan. Benefits include medical payments, wage restoration, special indemnities for permanent
bodily injury, and death benefits. Acceptance of work-injury or worker’s compensation benefits precludes
recovery of damages by suits at law.
Public Assistance
This is a residual program designed to provide assistance to various classes of needy persons not
covered by other programs. Typical classes of beneficiaries include the aged not covered by the
employment-related programs mentioned above, the blind, the disabled not covered by work-injury or other
employment-related programs, and impoverished families with dependent children.
The services provided
Community services
Community social assistance services aim at all the social problems of the community:
1. solve problems that fall within the limits of their competence,
2. Calls for support from specialized systems for cases that go beyond the scope of competence,
3. follow the evolution of social cases, support the decision making to protect the persons in the area
they are responding to, based on the social investigation.
Specialized services
In addition to community-based territorial, community-based social and territorial assistance services that
are territorially and globally oriented, specialized social work services are needed to work on population
segments, types of problems, but with the collaboration of territorial community services.
Local social services must have a financial fund for determined support based on a social diagnosis and may
be of two types depending on the state of fact:
- Emergency services made up of relatively modest sums to solve problems that can not be delayed:
food, clothing, medicines and is addressed to families or people who are in extreme difficulty and
- Occasional, punctual services for resolving critical family issues: those who come to solve a
punctual problem highlighted by the social ache.
Specialized services aim at maintaining, restoring or developing individual capacities to overcome a social
need situation.