Research Reports
Improvement Measures of Social Safety Net for the Poor and Old Farmers
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AuthorPark, Daeshik
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Publication Date2009.07.01
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The purposes of this study are to analyze current social safety net for the poor and old farmers, and to suggest policy improvement measures to improve the social safety net.
The major research methods include the collection of existing related data, re-analysis of previous field survey data, in-depth interview, and so on. Existing data were collected from related governmental organizations and research institutes. The re-analysis of previous field survey data on 397 poor and old farmers were conducted. The original field survey was conducted among 1,000 elderly residents (aged 65 or older) of 50 rural areas, asking them about their economic activities and social safety. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentage, and means were used to summarize the data of the field survey.
In the case of the first social safety net (social insurance), the pension affiliation ratio was 30%. The medical insurance non-recipient ratio was 19.6%. The recipients of employment insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance were very few. In the case of the second social safety net (public assistance), the proportion of recipients in the national basic livelihood security system was only 7.0%. In the case of the third social safety net (urgent support system), most respondents (95.2%) did not know the urgent supporting system.
Major problems of social safety net for the poor and old farmers are as follows: 1) unrealistic national basic livelihood security system, 2) insufficient income stabilization measures, 3) insufficient active welfare measures, 4) burdensome medical cost and insurance bill, 5) burdensome personal cost of long-term care insurance for the elderly, 6) residents' low acknowledgement level on the various welfare system.
Policy tasks to improve social safety net for the poor and old farmers are as follows: 1) improvement of the exceptional treatment for farmers in the national basic livelihood security system 2) reinforcement of income stabilization support, 3) cultivation of rural social enterprise, 4) improvement of medical insurance bill support system, 5) reduction of medical cost, 6) improvement of the personal cost reduction measure in the long-term care insurance for the elderly, 7) reinforcement of the support system for weak farm households, 8) reinforcement of education and public relations on the social safety net.
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