CODE ON SOCIAL SECURITY LAW MANUAL BY TAXMANN PUBLICATION -2026

Code on Social Security Law Manual is Taxmann’s authoritative single-volume working reference on India’s social security statute as it now operates in practice. The 2026 Edition is built around the editorial position that the Code on Social Security 2020 must be read as a system: the statute together with the rules made under it, the welfare scheme notified under it, the implementation cluster of notifications surrounding its commencement, and the cross-Code compliance machinery that frames it. The Manual brings all of these into one volume and arranges them so the reader can move between them in the order their work actually requires—concordance lookup, section text, editorial restatement, supporting case law, applicable rule, prescribed form, jurisdictional notification, FAQ, compliance checklist—without leaving the book.

The Manual also incorporates the Social Security (Central) Rules 2026, the Other Beneficiaries and Members of their Families Medical Facilities Scheme 2026 and a cluster of 24 commencement, designation, delegation and recovery notifications under the Code; this Edition is the first to carry the Code with that full implementation machinery in place.

The Manual is built for the reader who works with the Code on Social Security as operative law and needs the supporting apparatus alongside the statutory text:

• HR, Payroll, Benefits and Compliance Heads in factories, mines, plantations, building and other construction establishments, large-format service-sector enterprises and Central-Sphere PSUs who have to reconfigure their PF, ESI, gratuity, maternity, employee’s compensation and BOCW Cess workflows under the new regime