Income (Social welfare)

Income (Social welfare)

The Social Welfare System income through which its expenditure is funded is classified as follows:

1.Social contributions

  • 1.1.Employers' social contributions
    • 1.1.1.Employers' actual social contributions
    • 1.1.2.Employers' imputed social contributions
  • 1.2.Social contributions paid by the protected persons
    • 1.2.1.Employees
    • 1.2.2.Self-employed persons
    • 1.2.3.Pensioners and others

2. Government contributions

  • 2.1.Specific taxes
    • 2.2.General taxes

    3.Rerouted from other schemes

    4.Other income

    • 4.1.Income from property
      • 4.2.Others


      Social contributions are the costs incurred by the employers, protected persons or the protection schemes themselves, and which secure entitlement for the beneficiaries to receive social benefits.

      Employers' social contributions may be actual or imputed. When the payments are made to an autonomous insurer which manages the provision of the benefits (this insurer may be a Social Security institute, a non-profit institutions or a private insurance company) or segregated reserves are established for that purpose on the balance sheets of the company, they are actual contributions. When the employers undertake to supply the benefit directly to their workers, without involving an autonomous insurer and without establishing segregated reserves for that purpose, they are considered to be imputed social contributions.

      Social contributions may be also paid by the protected persons, who may be employees, self-employed persons or pensioners. Rerouted social contributions are also included and are the payments that a social protection scheme makes to another scheme in order to maintain or accrue the rights of its protected persons.

      Public Administration contributions are destined to defray the costs of non contributive public systems or supplement the income of the rest of the system. It may refer to income derived from the collection of specific taxes legally linked to the provision of a determined service or welfare system, although in general it refers to generic contributions carried out by Administrations which are not subject to the receipt of any specific income (general income).

      The calculation of Public Contributions presents difficulties in those cases in which there is a sole entity or body whose operation affects the whole of the national territory, and receives a sole amount as a Public Contribution from the Central Administration or the State. In these cases the question lies in determining the proportion by which the Basque Autonomous Community contributes to the maintenance of the expenditure of the body in the whole of the state.

      This problem mainly affects the income of the Social Security System and that of the National Employment Institute. In the case of the former an estimation has been used of the income of the Social Security prepared by the Department of Justice, Employment and Social Security of the Basque Government that uses as its criteria the contributions of the Basque Country to the maintenance of non transferred powers as is specified in the Law on the Quota.

      The same criteria was judged as suitable in the case of the INEM income for Public Contributions.

      Transfers from other systems are payments without compensation between different Social Welfare Systems. They constitute an income for the system receiving them.

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