China News Service, Shanghai, January 29 (Reporter Xu Jing) The Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau announced on the 29th that as of the end of 2023, a total of 718,000 people in Shanghai will participate in urban and rural residents’ pension insurance. The "Shanghai Basic Pension Insurance Measures for Urban and Rural Residents" have been revised and improved recently, and the newly revised "Measures" will be implemented from May 1, 2024.
The urban and rural residents’ pension insurance system is a basic pension insurance system for urban and rural residents. Individuals pay annual contributions, the government provides subsidies, and village collectives provide subsidies if conditions permit. Since the establishment of Shanghai’s urban and rural residents’ pension insurance system, the system has been continuously improved, and the level of benefits has been improved year by year. It has played a positive role in expanding the coverage of pension insurance, ensuring that the poor are covered, promoting rural revitalization, and promoting common prosperity.
This revision of the "Measures" comprehensively benchmarks the relevant requirements of the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on improving the social security system and the country's reform arrangements for urban and rural residents' pension insurance in recent years. Combined with the actual situation in Shanghai, it adheres to clear rights and responsibilities and ensures all the protections that should be provided. , on the basis of the basic principles of paying more and getting more, paying more and paying more, we strive to improve the level of security and improve service convenience.
In order to further strengthen care for the elderly and improve the level of pension security for the elderly, the "Measures" added an elderly-biased policy, that is: for those who receive pension insurance benefits for urban and rural residents in Shanghai, those who are over 70 years old and under 80 years old will basically The pension will be increased by 10 yuan per month; for those aged 80 or above, the basic pension will be increased by another 10 yuan per month, for a total increase of 20 yuan.
At the same time, in order to further increase the assistance for needy groups to participate in urban and rural residents' pension insurance, the "Measures" newly stipulate that for severely disabled people, subsistence allowance recipients, and extremely poor people and other needy groups who have difficulty in individual payment, each district can make its own plans Policies provide support.
In addition, the "Measures" also improved the qualification certification method for recipients of benefits. In the future, confirmation will mainly be carried out through information comparison and other methods, and clarified that the taxation department shall be responsible for the declaration and collection of pension insurance premiums for urban and rural residents.
According to the "Measures", the specific standards for personal payment and government subsidies for Shanghai's urban and rural residents' pension insurance will be formulated separately by the Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau in conjunction with the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau. Before the new standards are announced, the personal payment and government subsidy standards for urban and rural residents’ pension insurance participants will still be implemented in accordance with the original regulations. (over)