摘要：Social security systems are facing new challenges that differ significantly from thoseexperienced decades ago, and which involve major implications for their financing. One of the mostimportant components of social security systems is the public budget for old age insurances. The paperconsiders the main sources and constraints of the financing mix for social protection of old age anddisabled persons in Romania during 2000–2010. After an introduction about the need of socialprotection in a society and the forms of social security systems, the paper continue with theparticularities of EU member states social protection systems and Romania’s position, the paperpresents the revenues of public pension budget, their analysis and, finnaly, some conclusions wereunderlined. The public pension system in Romania is 90% dependent on the number of companies andemployees that activate in the economy, on the contributions received from them, filling shortfalls beingcovered by state budget. I appreciate that social tax burden should not be increased and the problem isnot the financing, but the usage of money.
关键词：social protection; old age insurance; social contributions
