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Social protection encompasses all interventions from public or private bodies intended to relieve households and individuals of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs, provided this is done in the absence of a simultaneous and equivalent counterpart from the beneficiary and of insurance taken out for private initiative of the beneficiary. The list of risks or needs that may give rise to social protection is, by convention: sickness/health care, disability, old age, survivors, family/children, unemployment, housing, social exclusion not elsewhere classified.
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