TokyoLiz
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:54 pm Post subject: Shakai Hoken changes |
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Shakai hoken shake-up will open up pensions for some but close door on benefits for others
BY LOUIS CARLET
June 6, 1980, was a Friday. The Social Insurance Agency quietly issued an untitled internal memo called a naikan regarding the eligibility of part-timers in Japan’s shakai hoken health and pension program. Who could have known what chaos, confusion and frustration that single-page document would cause in the coming decades? Let’s get our hands dirty and dig through the details.
All residents of Japan, regardless of nationality, must be enrolled in universal public health care and pension programs, in one of two parallel systems — one for employees, the other for the rest. The one for employees combines both health insurance (kenkō hoken) and pension (kōsei nenkin) into a set called shakai hoken (officially called Employees’ Health & Pension Insurance in English). It’s better than — and incorporates — the other schemes (kokumin kenkō hoken, aka National Health Insurance, and kokumin nenkin, the National Pension). By better, I mean it offers better benefits, as well as requiring employers to put up half the monthly premiums. |
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/04/24/issues/shakai-hoken-shake-will-open-pensions-close-door-benefits-others/#.Vx6frtTyqrW |
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