Opportunities to support SMEs by expanding welfare pension
Liberal Democratic Party meetings were held over expanding the application of welfare pensions to short-time workers working in part-time workers, etc. The opinion that was said one after another.
The Liberal Democratic Party's Social Security Research Committee held a meeting on the pension system and discussed the expansion of the application of the welfare pension to short-time workers working in the part-time.
In this meeting, the attending lawmakers expressed their opinion that “it will help alleviate future anxiety among part-time workers” and agreed that it was necessary to expand the application.
On the other hand, since companies pay half of their insurance premiums, they said that “consideration for small and medium-sized enterprises with increasing burdens is necessary” and that support measures for companies should be considered together.
Currently, for a short-time worker to join the welfare pension, a company with more than 501 employees works for more than 20 hours a week and has a monthly income of more than 88,000 yen. We are studying to ease the requirements of the enterprise scale.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is considering detailed system reforms at the Social Security Council, taking into account the opinions of the ruling party, and intends to compile concrete measures within the next month.