SOCIAL INSURANCE AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

based social-economic relationships, by means of which, in the process of allotting the gross domestic product, the money funds are established, allotted, managed and used, funds necessary for the compulsory protection of employees, pensioners and their family members. Through the social insurance system, the financing of the protection and support of active citizens, of pensioners and of their family members is provided and consists in the state providing indemnities, grants, pensions, tickets for rest, balneal treatment and other gratuities, in the period in which they are temporarily of permanently incapable to work, or in other instances when assistance is needed. The structural transformations at the level of society and the practical enforcement of the Romanian state social policy correspondingly reflected in the social insurance system which has currently the following structure