The Japanese public pension system makes up for a drop of the ability for family support now. Therefore the system take a very important role as the income security for, especially, the old age.
Person insured qualification varies according to an occ...
The Japanese public pension system makes up for a drop of the ability for family support now. Therefore the system take a very important role as the income security for, especially, the old age.
Person insured qualification varies according to an occupation; Self-employed workers, employees, and their dependents. In addition, the insured qualification also depend on regular employees or non-regular employees, married or unmarried, and annual income. Against such a system, the criticism that this is an unfair design as the public system exists for a long time.
By the way, recently, not for living, a new style of working for social contribution and/or exerting the best of their abilities has appeared, that is activity at the organization, Workers’ Collective.
This organization doesn’t seek to make a profit. They aim to provide vulnerable groups, the aged, children and disabled, in their community with service by the price lower than market price. For example, the kind of services is a baby-sitter, food delivery and so on.
Now the government wants the directors of Workers’ Collective to pay the pension premiums on the reason that they get the reward for working at the organizations.
But the directors of Workers’ Collective assert that they are not employees in general, but are the same as the dependents of employees.
These features are unique to Public Pension System in Japan. In other words, people can choice more profitable qualification for them. Such a situation cause to feel lack of impartial and neutral.
In this paper, I will overview the outline of Japanese Public Pension System and look at way what the System should be.