1. 1 Social Security Yeun-Wen Ku National Chi Nan University Meeting on Social Indicators and Social Accounting Seoul, 8-9 May 2006 Current State and Future

2. 2 ILO standards– 9 risks/needs ‧ old age, survivors, disability, injury, sickness and health, family, unemployment, housing, Living assistance and others ‧ established by a law to provide specific benefits, and require public, semi- public or independent organizations to assume responsibility for it ‧ managed by a public, semi- public or an independent organization established by a law Scope SystemStatistics Next step

3. Annex 1 Health insurance Occupational insurance Scope SystemStatisticsNext step ‧ Subsidies for disability ‧ Home care for veterans ‧ Emergency assistance for women in hardship ‧ Others ‧ Assistance for calamities, emergencies ‧ Living assistance for low income households ‧ Living subsidies for mid or low income child and juvenile ‧ Others Social insurance Annex 2

4. The number of beneficiary(2004) Medical care beneficiary ： 99 ％ of population Scope SystemStatisticsNext step Pension beneficiary 25~64 years 12.6 million persons 65 + years 2.2 million persons Received the pension 33% Without any pension 32% Military personnel, Government employee, and School teachers insurance, or Labor insurance 63% 65 + low-income and farmer’s monthly allowance 39% Received the pension 49% 65 + monthly allowance 8% Without any pension 25~64 years 12.6 million persons Labor insurance 66% (Employment insurance 42%) Farmer’s insurance 13% 15% Without any pensionMilitary personnel, Government employee & School teachers supplemental insurance 5% Occupational supplemental insurance beneficiary

5. 5 Beneficiary of social relief and benefit service ２００４ Persons (1 000 person) As ％ of total population( ％） Expenditure for social relief Living assistance for low income households Family subsidies for living Student subsidies for living Expenditure for benefit service Living assistance for the disability Living subsidies Rearing & housing subsidies Home care for veterans 204.2 189.8 54.9 247.9 20.2 99.2 0.9 0.8 - 1.1 - 0.4 Scope SystemStatisticsNext step

6. 6 Expenditure by budget item Receipts (by economic type) Social insurance Social relief Benefit service Social contributions Employer ’ s social contributions Private sector Public sector Employee ’ s social contributions Taxes Earmarked taxes Government revenues Other receipts Old age Survivors Disability Injury Sickness & health Family Unemployment Housing Living assistance and others Expenditure by function In cash In kind Expenditure by nature × × Government Corporation Household By sector × Overview of core system Scope SystemStatisticsNext step

7. 7 Scope SystemStatistics Next step Ratio of social security expenditure to GDP( ％ ) ： 9.7 ％

8. 8 Scope SystemStatistics Next step By function ： Old age(44 ％ ) ， Sickness and health(38 ％ ) ， Combined amount to 83 ％

9. 9 Grand total Receipts by economic type Insurance premium Taxes others Employer’s contributions Employee’s contribution Earmarked taxes General government revenues Public sector Private sector ％ of GDP 10.65.53.71.62.11.84.70.24.50.5 ％ of total 100.051.634.914.820.116.743.81.642.24.6 Scope SystemStatistics Next step Ratio of social security revenue to GDP( ％ ) ： 10.6 ％ (2004) By sector ： Government 63.2 ％ Corporation 20.1 ％ Household 16.7 ％ NT$ 723.8 billion NT $230.9 billion NT$ 192 billion Government 63.2% Corporation 20.1% Household 16.7%

10. 10 Scope SystemStatistics Next step National burden(16.8 ％ ) ： Tax burden (12.9 ％ ) ＋ Social security burden(3.9 ％ )

11. 11 Scope SystemStatisticsNext step 1.The Social Indicator Division, Statistics Bureau ： CHIU-YEN LEE E-MAIL ： amylee@dgbas.gov.tw CONTACT ： Budget items Eurostat OECD ILO

12. 12 2.Gender mainstreaming ： The Committee on the Promotion of Women's Right, the Executive Yuan requests Scope SystemStatisticsNext step Survivors Expenditure by function Old-age male female By gender male female By gender Expenditure by function …

13. 3.Implementing National Pension: (1)For the population between the age of 25 to 64, 85% are entitled to receive the old-aged benefit from various supplemental occupational insurances Scope SystemStatisticsNext step (2) 65 + years Currently NT$3,000 No need to pay premium Future National Pension 25~64 years Need to pay premium 25~64 years 12.6 million persons Occupational supplemental insurance beneficiary Military personnel, Government employee & School teachers supplemental insurance Labor insurance 66% (Employment insurance 42%) Farmer’s insurance 13% 15% Without any pension 5%

14. The relation between aging of main country and social security expenditure 65 ＋ year = 10%65 ＋ year = 14% Needed years from 10% to 14% （ year ） year SSE as % of GDP (%) year SSE as % of GDP(%) Chinese Taipei2007 -2018 - 11 Japan1985 11.01994 13.0 9 Switzerland1959 7.51982 14.7 23 Greece1968 10.31992 20.2 24 Spain1975 13.31991 20.3 16 Italy1966 17.21988 21.3 22 Finland1973 13.71994 33.1 21 Scope SystemStatisticsNext step (1)Tax reform: 2006, The Alternative Minimum Tax (2)Improving financial structure of social insurance : Ratio of Government to social security revenue 63.2%. 4. Financial source for social insurance ：

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