1. Health care: guarantee that health systems are established to provide adequate access to health services for all. 2. Sickness: Cash benefits should be provided to those incapable of working due to ill-health to cover periods of loss of earnings. Persons suffering from long periods of sickness should qualify for disability benefits. 3. Old age: appropriate measures should be taken to establish social security schemes that provide benefits to older persons, starting at a specific age, to be prescribed by national law. 4. Unemployment: benefits to cover the loss or lack of earnings due to the inability to obtain or maintain suitable employment. 5. Employment injury: the protection of workers who are injured in the course of employment or other productive work. 6. Family and child support: the provision of adequate family support, particularly for children, the aged and people living with disabilities. 7. Maternity: Paid maternity leave should be granted to all women, and benefits should be provided for an adequate period. 8. Disability: the provision of adequate income support to persons with disabilities who, owing to disability or disability-related factors, have temporarily lost, or received a reduction in, their income, have been denied employment opportunities or have a permanent disability. e. Survivors and orphans: States should guarantee to widows and orphans adequate benefits and assistance under social security schemes, including ensuring that they are entitled to inherit property from their husbands, parents or other relatives. f. Ensure that qualifying conditions for benefits are reasonable, proportionate and transparent. The withdrawal, reduction or suspension of benefits should be circumscribed, based on grounds that are reasonable, subject to due process, and provided for in national law. g. Ensure that where a social security scheme requires contributions, these are stipulated in advance. The direct and indirect costs and charges associated with making contributions must be affordable for all, and must not compromise the realisation of other Charter rights. Vulnerable Groups, Equality and Non-discrimination h. Establish social safety nets to ensure that members of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are able to survive even in times of severe resource constraints, including in periods of economic recession. i. 46 Ensure no direct or indirect discrimination in social security schemes on any of the prohibited grounds of discriminationxxxv particularly through the imposition of unreasonable eligibility conditions or lack of adequate access to information.