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Social Security Organization (SSO) is a social insurer organization in Iran which provides coverage of wage-earners and salaried workers as well as voluntary coverage of self-employed persons. In 1975 the Social Security Law was approved and the SSO was established.Iran did not legislate in favor of a universal social protection but in 1996 the Center of the Statistics of Iran estimated that more than 73% of the Iranian population was covered by social security.