{"entity":{"id":"iran-social-security-organization","kind":"institution","name":"Social Security Organization of Iran (Tamin Ejtemaei)","aka":["SSO","سازمان تامین اجتماعی","Tamin Ejtemaei","Social Security Organisation of Iran"],"tldr":"Iran's social insurance fund for private-sector workers and the self-employed who contribute. It covered about 43 million people in 2019 and runs hospitals of its own.","summary":"The Social Security Organization was established in 1975 after the Social Security Act and became directly responsible for health care for workers after the 1989 Obligation Law, according to a 2021 policy analysis of Iran's insurance system. The same analysis describes it as a non-governmental organisation covering employees of the formal private sector, the self-employed and voluntary contributors, with 43,475,548 people covered in 2019, and a contribution of 30% of wages of which 9 points fund the health benefits package. Its own website, read from an Internet Archive copy of 11 September 2026, links to its provincial and hospital sites and an appointments system for its own medical centres. Like the other basic insurers it works under the regulations of the High Council of Health Insurance. tamin.ir did not answer from here on 4 November 2026.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Social Security Organization (Persian; Internet Archive copy of 11 September 2026)","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260911105119/https://tamin.ir/"},{"label":"Doshmangir et al., Iran health insurance system in transition (Int J Equity Health 2021)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01372-4"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["iran-health-insurance-organization","iran-mohme"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Coordinates are Tehran's city centroid.","Read from an Internet Archive copy of 11 September 2026."],"city":"Tehran","country":"IR","lat":35.6892,"lng":51.389,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.tamin.ir","programs":["Health insurance for formal private-sector employees and contributors","Own hospitals and medical centres"]},"route":"/institutions/iran-social-security-organization/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"iran-health-insurance-organization","kind":"institution","name":"Iran Health Insurance Organization (IHIO)","route":"/institutions/iran-health-insurance-organization/"},{"id":"iran-mohme","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran","route":"/institutions/iran-mohme/"}]}}