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2008年12月08日 13時54分40秒 | 新聞記事から
厚生年金、若者の不利改善 本社研究会2次報告 個人の積み立て枠を新設 基礎年金、物価反映で充実

The Pension System Reform Study Conference set up by The Nihon Keizai Shimbun has compiled its second report on the reform of the public pension scheme.In addition to the first report that said that all the premium for the basic pension should be burden by the consumption tax and should prevent premium-delinquent persons or the non-eligible for the pension from being generated,the second report claims that some of the premium for the second-layered part of the employees' pension and mutual-aid pension(the part proportionate to the premium decided by each person's pay) should be accumulated for each pension member and thus the principal and interest are to return to each pension member.This is aimed at improving the current condition that the younger generation are more unfavorable in reciving the pension benefits than the older generation. Another idea in the second repoer is that the benefit of the basic pension should be made substantial by not fixing it to 66,000 yen but making it flexible to the price fluctuation such as commodity price and pay.