|
KMID : 1023720060320010031
|
|
Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2006 Volume.32 No. 1 p.31 ~ p.68
|
|
|
The Pension Reform of Japan and Income Security Policy for Elderly
|
|
Cho Chu-Yong
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Japan is a nation with the longest life span, with the parliamentary cabinet system and advanced systems, laws, and policies. The key silver life security policies of Japan includes: exemption of the medical fee of the old in 1973 legislation of the silver health law in August, 1982 establishment of the ten-year promotional plan of the silver health welfare in 1989 (gold plan) modification to the new gold plan in 1994 and the individual residence insurance law, which was legislated in 1997 and began to be executed in 2000. The chronicle of the characteristics and focus points of the public pension system in Japan are as follows. Firstly, although the public pension system was established in Japan, the proportion of the public security cost was still lower than that of European nations. However, the reform done in 1973 was historically most innovative, including the extensive reform of payment level, and the implementation of the slide system. Secondly, the new pension system was activated from April, 1986, the contents of which being raising the welfare pension, implementation of the completely automatic price sliding system, and changing the temporary enrollment of students to forced enrollment.
Thirdly, in the pension reform in 2004 added 0.354%yearly to the welfare pension insurance cost, added the burdens of the workers, and raising the proportion of the government budget in the basic pension from 1/3 to 1/2 until 2009. Fourthly, the key issues that can be found in the reform of Japan’s public pension system are: first, the policy which tries to integrate the diverse and various systems by grouping them ① into similar groups, ② selection of a method by which only the necessary amount is taken as the insurance fee, and the redistribution of that money within and among households, ③ the
total amount to be paid for social welfare being greater than the total of the national tax, ④ income transference among the generations (the aged and the middle age) by practicing the welfare pension, ⑤ and forceful enrollment of all the people in the national pension, which became the foundation of the national pension insurance system.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
public pension, public pension of Japan, the aged welfare policy of Japan
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|