Health and Public Assistance

• The United States has two kinds of social programs, they are social insurance and public assistance programs. The social programs where designed to help the elderly,ill, unemployed citezens. Public assistance programs distribute public money to the poor people. But in order for this to happen the government must use general tax revenues to pay for them.


• Whether you are the employer,employee, or are self-employed you must pay a social security taxes. The money from this tax goes towards you retirement.