 Iran has a comprehensive social protection system with some 28 social insurance, social assistance, and disaster relief programmes benefiting large segments of the population.These programmes include training and job-search assistance, health and unemployment insurance, disability, old-age and survivorship pensions, and in kind- or in-kind transfers including subsidies (e.g., housing, food, energy), rehabilitation and other social services (e.g.long-term care services for the elderly), and even marriage and burial assistance.