국가와 지방자치단체간 기초연금 재원분담체계의 적정성에 관한 검토

Abstract

Recently, important welfare policies of our society are mainly decided by the central government or the parliament, but the role of local governments is often the main factor in the execution of the welfare policies. In order for sustainable implementation of welfare policies such as basic pensions, it is first necessary to clarify the responsibilities of the state and local governments and to share the resources by consensus. However, due to the urgency of the policies, the project is being implemented without sufficient consensus on the financing, which is placing a lot of burden on local finance. The purpose of this study is to analyze the current basic pension cost sharing system between state and local governments and to suggest new alternatives. Specifically, based on the Basic Pension Act, its sub-decrees, and ordinances of local governments, the current standard of basic pension cost sharing, procedures and methods are analyzed and suggestions for improvement are provided. The problems of the current basic pension cost sharing system are that the standard of cost sharing is limited to reflect the actual basic pension expenditure, the consultation procedures are not specified in the statute, and the partial state subsidy method is taken to point out that the autonomy of the local governments is being hindered and the local finance is burdened. The most important point for the improvement of the basic pension cost sharing system is that the consultation procedure between state and local governments must be prescribed in basic pension act. It is also necessary that the consultation procedure be carried out faithfully in making decisions on the cost sharing between regional local governments and basic local governments, and these contents need to be reflected in the ordinances.