Employees' pension enrollment Company scale Adjusted to “51 or more” in 5 years Liberal Nov. 29 16:50
The Liberal Democratic Party decided to reduce the company-wide requirement from “501 or more” to “51 or more” in terms of membership over a period of five years over expanding the application of employee pensions to short-time workers. The final adjustment will proceed in the direction of lowering.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is considering expanding the scope of application so that it is easy to join the Employees' Pension as a low pension measure for short-time workers working in part-time jobs.
Regarding this, the Liberal Democratic Party held a social security system study committee and decided to reduce the enterprise-scale requirement of “501 or more employees” to “51 or more” among the membership conditions.
However, in light of concerns raised by small and medium-sized enterprises that increase the insurance premium burden, in October 2022, three years later, the number was set to “over 101”, and in October 2024, five years later, “ The final adjustment will be made in a direction to lower it to “51 or more” in two stages.
The Liberal Democratic Party will further consider the timing of the reduction and will officially compile the proposal as a party next week and make a proposal to the government.
In addition, regarding the “employed old age pension” system that reduces the pension of elderly people who work and have a certain income, the standard amount of income that the pension will be reduced is from 280,000 yen for people aged 60 to 64 years While raising the yen, we also confirmed that people over the age of 65 would keep it at the current 470,000 yen.