This paper is aimed at interrogating the current state of social security as a right and its more encompassing variant social protection in Uganda. The paper therefore looks at the law, policy and practice on social security with a view to establishing the current status of social security and social protection in the country. It also seeks to establish the levels of social exclusion from social security and social protection. The paper relies on secondary literature, government publications, newspaper records and selected interviews. The paper finds that social security coverage is limited to only about 5% of the working population in Uganda of about 11 million. This is the case both for the Public Service Pension Scheme (PSPS), the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and private in-house voluntary pension schemes. Otherwise, the limited social protection that exists from government covers basic education and provision of water to some citizens while most of the social goods like housing, food and clothing are only available at the initiative of private citizens and not via assistance from the state.