Employees' pension “Escape from membership” measures To strengthen the authority of the Japan Pension Service, October 30 22:35
The establishment of the Japan Pension Service will be strengthened so that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare can force on-site inspections because there are no end to the establishments that are “escape” without paying insurance premiums for the employees' pension. It was.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, all corporate establishments and five or more individual establishments are obliged to join the Employees' Pension, and a total of 2.36 million companies, approximately 40 million people are participating. .
However, there are approximately 360,000 establishments that do not pay insurance premiums intentionally and escape the obligation to join, so-called “escape”, and approximately 1.56 million people are not covered by the welfare pension. It seems that.
For this reason, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare told the pension subcommittee of the Social Security Council, which was held on the 30th, that the Japanese Pension Service will be able to forcibly carry out on-site inspections even at establishments that have not been notified of membership when “escape from membership” is suspected. A proposal to strengthen the authority of the organization was shown.
In response to this, the attendees expressed their opinion in favor of “an effort to eliminate inconvenience”.
In addition, the subcommittee also presents plans for exempting the full payment of national pension premiums for unmarried single parents and low-income earners, and plans to abolish the pension book issued to public pension members. Both were approved.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will compile a concrete plan within the year and submit a related bill to the regular Diet next year.