복지분권화와 국가·지방간사회복지사무의 분담

Abstract

In local government the role as welfare community is more important than political and economical role to play a role as life community. This is just a significance of welfare decentralization. This, welfare decentralization is rational selection to admit sufficiently, and it is clear that that is the direction to go forward to, though perhaps there are many difficulties on that. But welfare decentralization is different from general affairs decentralization in process, because it is not easy to transfer finance from central to local. In the case of welfare affairs, central government intend to transfer welfare affairs as much as possible because of financial burden. Local government oppose welfare decentralization unless finance transfer is premised. I think that Korea have not experienced universal welfare system yet and have been not provided even welfare basic rights of national minimum, in this condition to transfer welfare system to local government maybe bring about evasion of welfare social responsibility or expansion of welfare gap between regions. To overcome financial imbalance between local autonomous entities, various systems the likes of decentralization revenue sharing system, national subsidy and so on, are tries and adjusted, compensated, but those are not satisfied as ever. In the issue of welfare decentralization, the most important means of settling is fiancial independence. For finance decentralisation autonomous financial resources raising, autonomy of expenditure should be premised, and it should be preceded that rational adjustment between national tax and local tax, tax excavation right and setting up self-reliance finance resources of local government. Finally I grant that finance problem is resolved but even so, I think local government must have planning and execution ability for social welfare service to handle wellfare decentralization sufficiently.