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The system of the social security is the law which has a constitutional established position in Poland as well as finds numerous connections to the files of international law. However, as a result of different social-economic conditioning, it a is subject to transformations. These changes should contribute to reducing of the effects of appearances of the living risk. According to the authors, it is possible, in many cases, to assess implemented reforms as the withdrawing of the state from the guaranteed constitutionally and internationally social standard. Healing of the public finance and the improvement in the trade boom should be an essential stage in reforming of the system of the social security