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KMID : 1001320100370010287
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Social Welfare Policy
2010 Volume.37 No. 1 p.287 ~ p.310
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Measures to Establish Budget for Elderly Welfare under Implementing Decentralization Revenue Sharing System
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Kim Soo-Young
Seong Hyang-Sook
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Abstract
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The core part of decentralization in social welfare is associated with transferring financial power in managing social welfare budget to local governments. To realize this purpose, decentralization revenue sharing system was introduced. However, the decentralization revenue system has increased financial burden in local governments during the last five years. In addition, as a result of growing population of older adults and beginning national long term care insurance plan, establishing a firm infrastructure of the elderly welfare has become a pending agenda. Here, the major purpose of this study is to suggest measures to build up a secure bound of the elderly welfare budget, while considering aggravating financial status in the local governments. For this purpose, this study analyzed budget data-sets for the elderly welfare system in the financial year 2004 -2008. The sample data-sets were collected from Busan Metropolitan City, Won-Ju, and Buyeo-Gun. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, central government have been decreased financial aids in the elderly welfare programs, while local governments have increased their budget in the programs; Second, unequal development of infrastructure in the elderly welfare system was more likely to occur local government which showed lower capacity to pay matching funds for implementing older adults programs; Third, some of the elderly welfare programs derived by the central government were similar to the locally transferred programs. As a result, the lower program efficiency was found among the elderly welfare programs; Fourth, accountability and autonomy originated from a chief administrator in the local government are required to establish a sufficient budget for a locally-based new program. Based on these results, the following measures are required to secure elderly welfare budget. First, after expanding social welfare budget through improving the decentralization revenue sharing system, it is necessary to distribute budget for the elderly welfare. Second, local government try to strengthen financial resources. Third, the secure budget system can be achieved by creating a highly efficient budget structure, which results in merging and abolition of the elderly welfare programs between central government and local governments. Fourth, forming a governance system based on participatory budgeting is also needed to establish secure elderly budget.
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KEYWORD
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decentralization revenue sharing system, budger for elderly welfare
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