The granting of age allowance in only 6 provinces and regions is more and more muddled
source: Xinhua network
according to media reports, in April 1st this year, Anhui Province Taihe County Li Xing town Cheng Zhai village 85 years old Cheng Baoping, who died of starvation because of his son's death. A few days later, similar tragedies took place again. On April 9th, Chai Yuji, a more than 80 year old man in Zhang Xin Zhuang village, Tongzhou District, Beijing, starved to death, though she had four sons.
two successive events, so that the dream of "old age and old happiness" is extremely heavy.
it is a gratifying thing that, as the wave of silver hair strikes quickly, how to make old people live with security and dignity has attracted more and more attention from the state. China Economic Weekly only learned that in order to further promote all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government to build up the age of 80 years old, it has brewed a year long Bulletin of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on the establishment of the first area of the senior Jin (Supplement) system (No. 2010) 111 (hereinafter referred to as "notifications") It will be published to the outside world. What is the purpose of the
announcement? What role will it play in promoting the further establishment of the Tianjin (Supplement) paste system for the aged over 80? Recently, this reporter interviewed Wang Zhenyao, director of the Department of social welfare and philanthropy of the Ministry of civil affairs.
only 6 provinces (districts, cities)
China Economic Weekly: according to my understanding, many places are pilot pension benefits, but the standard of age allowances issued in all parts of the country is not consistent. What is the purpose of the Ministry of civil affairs to announce the "bulletin"?
Wang Zhenyao: in recent years, all locals have been closely linked to local conditions, and some policies have been put forward. These policies are formulated at various levels, with different subsidy standards, both economically developed and underdeveloped regions. Generally speaking, these policies are of great significance to the establishment of a social service system for the pension and service support, and the transformation of social welfare from the deficiency type to the moderate and inclusive type. However, one of the current problems is that many places have not been paid in accordance with the standards stipulated by the Ministry of civil affairs, namely, the unified service of the whole province, over 80 years of age, and three standards by the month. Some provinces are not issued monthly. The immediate consequence is that the old man may not be alive if money is available. Some are issued according to the standard of 90 or 95 to 99 years old.
in order to sum up the experience of the establishment of the senior Jin (Supplement) system in various places and promote the wide establishment of the Xiang Huimin system throughout the country, we inform the practice of Beijing and other areas. In order to do this "bulletin", we began to collect materials from last year, after a year, after many changes and improvement, we have seen the result today.
according to the bulletin, it is shown that at the provincial level, there are 7 provinces (districts and cities) in Beijing, including Beijing and other provinces, including 6 provinces, including Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Yunnan, Ningxia and other provinces (districts and cities). The provincial level has not yet been established, but at the level level, 21 cities, such as Shanxi Province, Changzhi, and other cities in Shanxi Province, are established over the age of 80 years of age. Among them, 11 are issued monthly.
we hope that all locals can learn from the practice of these areas, especially the highlights of the area, and combine the local practice, and make a timely formulation of the advanced age subsidy policy to ensure that the elderly share the results of the reform and development.
China Economic Weekly: what are the highlights of the old Jin (patch) system in these leading areas?
Wang Zhenyao: in my opinion, there are three bright spots in these advanced areas.
first, with the province (city) as a unit, a unified standard of advanced age (Supplement) has been formulated, and the standard of the same administrative area has been changed gradually, and the standard of Tianjin (Supplement) is also based on the economic development.
next, according to the actual situation, according to the actual situation, the elderly people over 80 years of age are included in the range of Tianjin (Supplement), and some areas are also relaxed to lower age, and expand the scope of the zimoni paste enjoyment;
Third, adhere to the people-oriented, monthly to eligible elderly people plan high hair Age (Supplement) paste ensured the life rights and interests of the elderly in time and effectively.
what I want to emphasize is that the undeveloped areas such as Ningxia and Yunnan have all done a unified grant of age allowance, and many coastal developed areas have not been able to do it, and so far the whole province has not been unified. How many other provinces and counties are poorer than those in Ningxia?
"do not know the standard is absurd"
China Economic Weekly: "bulletin" shows that there are 7 provinces, cities and cities at present, and 21 prefecture level cities have reached all or part of the standards stipulated by the Ministry of civil affairs. Are you satisfied with the result?
Wang Zhenyao: not very satisfied. The reason for our announcement is that our national strength should not be such a result until we know it. We hope that when we talk about economic success, we should consider whether we should grant subsidies to the elderly over 80 years old. Can we strengthen a little concern about social problems? Don't wait for a serious problem.
China Economic Weekly: in April this year, in an interview with this magazine, the Ministry of civil affairs will unify the old-age pension system this year, and the elderly over the age of 80 can enjoy the allowance. However, there are individual provinces that have not received unified documents requested by the Ministry of civil affairs. What's the matter?
Wang Zhenyao: we really do not have a unified dispatch. The reason why there was no unified dispatch was mainly the disagreement at that time. However, we have repeatedly held meetings and repeatedly stressed the three standards, especially in September 19th last year in Yinchuan, Ningxia, to convene a special forum on the work of the elderly allowances in the coastal areas, and the three standards were clearly put forward at the meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to improve the national old-age security system, improve the old-age service system, and better promote the experience and practice of establishing the age allowance system in Ningxia throughout the country. The meeting was chaired by me. This is a working conference. Therefore, it is not always necessary to send papers. In addition to Tibet and other two places did not attend the meeting, the other 29 provinces (District, city) Department of Civil Affairs Department (bureau) department (bureau) long, the chief of social welfare department attended the meeting. It is absurd to say that the standard is not known.
China Economic Weekly: what role will the publication of this bulletin play in the provinces with relatively slow age allowance?
Wang Zhenyao: the reason for the introduction of this "notification" is to understand which provinces are concerned about the livelihood of the people, which of the people's livelihood are singing high profile and show; it is to remind the civil affairs departments at all levels and all social strata to pay attention to social welfare construction and to close the living conditions of the elderly. At the same time, this bulletin also helps us understand the gap between the various places concerned about the welfare of the elderly. As far as I know, many economically developed places look very proud. This bulletin is hoping to wake up the economically developed areas and give them a little pressure. Don't be so complacent and self-sufficient in economic development and pay more attention to the problems of the elderly. In fact, it is not only the elderly, but also children and the disabled. If the welfare of the elderly is loath to give, the problem is too great.
according to my understanding, the way to solve the aging problem in some places is to bring the benefits of the elderly into the low insurance, and it is only a little to do, and the idea needs to be changed. In fact, the 80 year old allowance is long overdue and we still have to push ahead. In fact, when it comes to the establishment of the old age allowance at the age of 80, we feel bad about ourselves, and the whole world has not done so.