Investigating the Living Conditions of Retirees and the Elderly Covered by the Social Security Organization Based on Government Policies

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Mohammad Ashineh ^{1 *} , Taha Abdollahpour Moghaddam ²

1 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Payam Noor University of Hormozgan, Iran
2 - Ph.D. in Sociology, Researcher and Financial Expert, Mahabad Social Security Outpatient and Limited Surgery Center

Received: 2024-10-12 Accepted : 2024-12-11 Published : 2024-12-20

Keywords: Retirement, Retirees, Social Security Organization, Policymaking, Elderly,

Abstract :

In today’s world, the issue of retirement forms a crucial element of employment systems and has long been a concern among employees in various productive and service sectors. Given that social security is entirely or largely a government welfare program, and a portion of its costs is covered by public revenues, reporting on the expenditures of social security and retirement is mandatory within the budget, overall policies, and government plans. The manner in which this segment of society spends their lifestyle and quality of life must be debatable, examinable, and a priority for the Social Security Organization in its policymaking. This research aims to investigate the impact of the quality of policy-making by the Social Security Organization on the lifestyle of its retirees in the city of Mahabad. The statistical population of this research includes all primary retirees of the Social Security Organization in the city of Mahabad, totaling 1817 individuals.The data collection tool included a researcher-developed questionnaire related to the study. After assessing its face validity and reliability by obtaining the opinions of respected professors and determining the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient (r=0.827r = 0.827r=0.827), which is higher than 0.700.700.70, it can be concluded that the questionnaire possessed acceptable reliability and was administered to the sample under study. After collecting, organizing, and classifying the data, the questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency tables, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and regression analysis) via SPSS software ver22.

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