scholarly journals Analysis of Reforming the Pension System of Ukraine: Implementation Problems and Development Prospects

Author(s):  
O. Poznyakova ◽  
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N. Panchuk ◽  
O. Burtseva ◽  
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Pension provision is an element of the pension system that ensures sustainable socio-economic development of the state as a whole. The article discusses the current problems of the pension system in Ukraine, ways to overcome and directions for its improvement. Determination of the further development and reform of the pension system aimed at ensuring the financial stability of the solidarity system. Introduction of the development of the pension system, taking into account the peculiarities of the current situation in the country, ways of reforming social insurance. The compulsory accumulative pension system is considered. Its introduction to retirees for two centuries. The advantages of the funded system, what it is based on, and its main contingent of citizens are analyzed. Principles of pension accrual, pension entitlements, old-age pensions, pension transfer, minimum and maximum pension in the course of reforms. Analyzed, introduced by introducing amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine regarding the increase in pensions. The demographic state of the population is considered. The article proves that the main strategic directions for improving the pension reform is the introduction of changes in the demography of the population; percentage of ERUs, when calculated for each entrepreneur separately (respectively, from the group of an individual entrepreneur to the type of activity); open your deposit account for the savings system in the public domain; to enable pensioners to work (to improve their knowledge with practitioners, to provide an opportunity to work with modern equipment, programs) to determine the dates for the introduction of the second level and the age category of participants; to establish and improve the work of the organization of pension provision; to show confidence in the reforms of the Pension Fund bodies to the population. Nowadays, constant monitoring of the achievement of the strategic goals of the reform of the pension system and pension provision and the adoption of fundamental decisions to overcome strategic gaps is quite an urgent issue and requires further research.

Author(s):  
О. Сhebereyako ◽  
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V.. Bykova

The article is devoted to actual issues of public finance – old-age income support and social security in the twenty-first century. For this reason, government has tried to guarantee old-age’s pension eligibility. In our country pension system is presented with three-level pension system, which join mandatory and voluntary components – solidary system (first level), compulsory accumulation system (not exist now) and private pension system. According to Ukrainian’s pension model, basic and minimum pensions are funded by solidary system or PAYG (“Pay-As-You-Go”) system. As the results, maintains of sufficient financial resources of Pension fund’s budget is very important for financial stability of pension system. The authors show the relationship between sufficient financial support for the elderly in Ukraine and the financial capacity of the solidarity pension system. It was found that in order to form a financially stability pension system, it is necessary to ensure a sufficient amount of own pension fund revenues and avoiding deficit of the Pension Fund’s budget. So, the main indicators of current PAYG system in Ukraine include the public pension expenditures and deficit of the Pension Fund. The article presents dynamics of revenues to the Pension Fund of Ukraine and structure of own pension fund revenues and allocations from the government budged. According to author’s research, the main source of revenue collection of the Pension fund’s budget in Ukraine is the budget’s transfers. О. Чеберяко, В. Бикова ISSN 2078-5860 ФОРМУВАННЯ РИНКОВОЇ ЕКОНОМІКИ В УКРАЇНІ. 2019. Вип. 41 480 The budget expenditures in the structure of income of the pension fund are also analyzed. The total amount of the government budget expenditures that are directed to financing the pension fund are about twenty percent. In our opinion, the key reasons of the “lack of own income” are the shadowing of the economy, the macroeconomic situation, the low minimum wage, the existence of a limit on the maximum amount of wages, which accrues percent of social contribution. As a conclusion, the authors suggest measures for solving the issue of “lack of own income” of the Pension Fund of Ukraine – rising the retirement age, labor market’s reforming, increasing insurance fees and implement compulsory accumulation system. The analytical materials and conclusions can be useful for following researches of finding solutions for achieving the financial stable Pay-You-Go system. Key words: pension system, The Pension fund, social insurance payments, deficit of The Pension fund, government budget.


Kuntoutus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Hanna Rinne ◽  
Jenni Blomgren

Tieto kuntoutuksen kentän kokonaisuudesta ja erilaisten kuntoutuspalveluiden käytöstä samoilla ihmisillä on varsin hajanaista ja puutteellista. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää kuntoutukseen osallistumisen yleisyyttä ja päällekkäisyyttä eri osajärjestelmissä Oulun asukkailla vuonna 2018 laajalla rekisteriaineistolla (N = 192 844). Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan julkisen sosiaali- ja terveyspalvelujärjestelmän kuntoutusta, Kelan kuntoutusta, työeläkekuntoutusta, työterveyshuollon fysioterapiaa ja Kelan korvaamaa yksityistä fysioterapiaa. Vuonna 2018 oululaisista 18 prosenttia sai vähintään yhden tutkitun osajärjestelmän kuntoutusta (N = 34 061). Yleisintä oli julkisen sosiaali- ja terveyspalvelujärjestelmän kuntoutus, harvinaisinta työeläkekuntoutus. Naiset osallistuivat kuntoutukseen miehiä yleisemmin. Kuntoutukseen osallistuminen oli miehillä yleisintä 65 vuotta täyttäneillä, naisilla 45–64-vuotiailla. Harvinaisinta se oli 16–24-vuotiailla miehillä ja alle 16-vuotiailla naisilla. Suurin osa (90 %) kuntoutukseen osallistuneista oli osallistunut vain yhden osajärjestelmän kuntoutukseen. Useamman osajärjestelmän kuntoutukseen osallistuminen oli naisilla miehiä yleisempää. Ikäryhmistä se oli yleisintä 45–64-vuotiailla ja harvinaisinta alle 16-vuotiailla. Vähintään kahden osajärjestelmän kuntoutukseen osallistuneet olivat keskimäärin vanhempia kuin vain yhden osajärjestelmän kuntoutukseen osallistuneet ja myös naisten osuus oli heillä suurempi. Rekisteritietoja kuntoutuksesta on hankala koota kattavasti, sillä järjestelmä on hyvin hajanainen ja toimijoita ja rekisterinpitäjiä on lukuisia. Myös kuntoutuksen määrittely aineistoista osoittautui vaikeaksi. Yhtenäiset tietojärjestelmät kuntoutuksesta palvelisivat paitsi tutkijoita, myös kuntoutujia. Abstract Prevalence and overlap of participation in rehabilitation in different subsystems – a register-based study among residents of the city of Oulu, Finland, in 2018 Knowledge of the whole spectrum of rehabilitation and of the use of different rehabilitation services by the same individuals is quite fragmented and incomplete. The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence and overlap of participation in rehabilitation in different subsystems among residents of the city of Oulu, Finland, in 2018 using extensive register-based data (N=192,844). The study examines rehabilitation organized by the public social and health care system, by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, by the earnings-related pension system, as well as physiotherapy in occupational health care and private physiotherapy reimbursed by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. In 2018, 18 per cent of the residents of Oulu received rehabilitation of at least one of the examined subsystems (N=34,061). Receiving rehabilitation of public social and health care was the most common; the rarest was rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension system. Women participated in rehabilitation more often than men. Using rehabilitation services was most common in men aged 65 and over, and in women aged 45–64. It was least common in men aged 16–24 years and in women under 16 years of age. The majority (90%) of those who participated in rehabilitation had participated in rehabilitation of only one subsystem. Participation in rehabilitation of several subsystems was more common in women than in men. It was most common in those aged 45–64 years and least common in those under 16 years of age. Those who received rehabilitation of at least two subsystems were, on average, older than those who received rehabilitation of only one subsystem, and more often women. It is difficult to compile comprehensive register data on rehabilitation, as the system is very fragmented and there are many organizers and registrars. Defining rehabilitation from the data also proved difficult. Unified information systems on rehabilitation would serve not only researchers but also rehabilitees. Keywords: rehabilitation, register-based research, Finland


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-530
Author(s):  
Maria Elvira Méndez Pinedo

Despite Iceland's economic recovery, nearly 48% households continue to struggle to make ends meet. This study argues, first, that the main reason behind over-indebtedness in this country is a loan system without parallel in Europe, based on a triple cost of credit (fix/variable interest, indexation of credit to inflation and negative amortization). Second, the problem is examined in the context of European law as some alleged malpractices of indexation have been referred to the EFTA Court. Third, the focus shifts to the debt-relief programme presented by the Icelandic government in 2013/2014 after the relative failure of previous debt-relief measures. It is argued that this plan will fail in the long run as long as the indexation of credit to inflation is not abolished. The private pension system in Iceland relies indirectly on indexed mortgage credit issued by the public Housing Financing Fund. Since a ban on indexation and a holistic pension reform are not expected soon, all present debt write off benefits will surely be eaten up by higher inflation. As long as indexation of credit is legal, the future scenario resembles less a debt-relief jubilee and more the theater play “Waiting for Godot ”.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1 ENGLISH ONLINE VERSION) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Ewelina Kumor-Jezierska

The study examines maternity leave regulations in a situation where both parents or legal guardians of a child are officers of the Polish Prison Service, or one of them is a PS officer, and the other is an employee or insured on the basis other than the employment relationship, e.g. a contract of mandate. The latest amendment of 24 July 2015 amending the Labour Code Act and certain other laws has extended the range of cases where it is possible for other eligible persons to use part of maternity leave. The new solution enable not only the parents of the child but also other immediate family members to use part of maternity leave. The complexity of the provisions related to parental rights makes interpretation difficult. Moreover, neither the Prison Service Act nor the provision of Article 29 para. 5 of the Act on cash benefits from social insurance, referred to by the Labour Code, specifies which specific persons can be regarded as the closest family. Proper determination of entitled persons is crucial, as it entails the payment of benefits financed by the State, and also, on the basis of the Act on Prison Service, the legislator guarantees protection of the public service relationship by virtue of Article 108 to officers (regardless of the eligible person’s gender and the degree of relationship) taking maternity leave or holiday leave on the terms of maternity leave.


2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
GONZALO REYES

AbstractAs part of the pension reform recently approved in Chile, the government introduced a centralized auction mechanism to provide the Disability and Survivors (D&S) Insurance that covers recent contributors among the more than eight million participants in the mandatory private pension system. This paper is intended as a case study presenting the main distortions found in the decentralized operation of the system that led to this reform and the challenges faced when designing a competitive auction mechanism to be implemented jointly by the Pension Fund Managers (AFP). When each AFP independently hired this insurance with an insurance company, the process was not competitive: colligated companies ended up providing the service and distortions affected competition in the market through incentives to cream-skim members, efforts to block disability claims, lack of price transparency, and the insurance contract acting as a barrier to entry. Cross-subsidies, inefficient risk pooling, and regulatory arbitrage were also present. The Chilean experience is relevant since other privatized systems with decentralized provision of this insurance may show similar problems as they mature. A centralized auction mechanism solves these market failures, but also gives raise to new challenges, such as how to design a competitive auction that attracts participation and deters collusion. Design features that were incorporated into the regulation to tackle these issues are presented here.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Dariusz Prokopowicz

The article describes the demographic, social and economic determinants of the capital reform plan of the pillar of the pension system based on the transfer of capital from Open Pension Funds to the Individual Pension Accounts system. The purpose of the planned pension reform is to improve the efficiency of the capital pillar of the pension system. Reform should also counteract the negative impact of demographic change, i.e. the aging process, on the public finances of the participatory pension system managed by the Social Insurance Institution. From mid-2016, the Ministry of Development had present the "Capital Construction Program", that is an important pillar of economic policy developed in Poland in 2017, at press conferences organized by the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The main assumptions of this economic policy are laid down in the so plan for responsible development.


2020 ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
ZURAB MUSHKUDIANI ◽  
DAVID MAMRIKISHVILI ◽  
IRAKLI GACHECHILADZE

The paper studies pension reform in Georgia which has been going on since the 1990s, evolving over time and taking a modern look. The axiom is that the pension system in our country needed to be upgraded. The discussion on the current issue has been going on for a long time and the topic does not lose its relevance today. The establishment of a liberal economic environment can be considered as the basis for the accumulation of «accumulated pensions» in our country. Like all recent reforms, there are supporters and opponents of the reform, but unfortunately, for a number of reasons, the public expresses distrust and views the reform as a step backward. It is clear that pensioners› reliance on the basic state pension is a heavy burden for the country›s budget.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Vilhushynskyi ◽  
Andrii Chornous

The purpose of the article is to scrutinize administrative and legal regulation of information relations of public procurement subjects in the economic sphere. Within the framework of the conducted research, the authors note that the system of subjects that carry out administrative and legal regulation of information relations in public procurement consists of general and special public administration subjects. The primary objectives of the article are the following: 1) to determine an exclusive list of public administration subjects that provide administrative and legal regulation of information relations in the field of public procurement; 2) to outline major trends of further development of administrative and legal regulation that relates to information relations of public procurement subjects. Methodology. In the course of the article preparation, a set of philosophical and ideological approaches has been used (in particular, the dialectical approach, which is a way of thinking based on the analysis of all available views on disclosure of the content of administrative and legal regulation of information relations of public procurement subjects; analytical approach, which is based on cognitive activity concerning proving or refuting the notion of a public procurement subjects system; hermeneutic that is used to understand the terms related to information relations of public procurement subjects in the economy); general scientific research methods (logical, which is based on “simple to complex” and “abstract to concrete” principles and relates to general characterization of information relations of public procurement subjects in the economic field); special methods (system-structural method when defining organizational structure and legal regulation of public procurement subjects activity, legal comparative analysis when studying foreign countries expertise; formal legal and formal logical approaches). Results. According to the results of the research, the authors have classified all public administration subjects that carry out legal administration of information relations in the field of public procurement into four separate organizational and structural levels. The particular article provides authors’ assumptions concerning further development of administrative and legal regulation of information relations of public procurement subjects in the economy, namely, emphasizes the necessity of strengthening preventive control in forms of general (analytical) monitoring, supervision of individual procurement procedures, and further automation of procurement processes; accentuates the tendency of public procurement sphere professionalization by organizing personnel trainings and educating public officials how to work with advanced information technologies; supports the need to continue implementing measures aimed at improving legislation, professionalizing labour resources in the public procurement field, improving international relations, attracting additional investments to integrate advanced technologies and hire field experts with background in managing national information resources and building e-government. Practical implications. The authors’ survey results may be used in legislative work related to the legal regulation of information relations of public procurement subjects in the economy. The particular article may also be used in further scientific researches concerning information relations of public procurement subjects in the economic field. Moreover, the article might be used in the academic process, in lectures and seminars on information and administrative law. Value/originality. The scientific novelty of the article comprises of synthesis of existing normative and doctrinal approaches to understanding information relations of public procurement subjects in the economy; generalization of information concerning public procurement subjects in the economic field; determination of development prospects of administrative and legal regulation of information relations of public procurement subjects in the economic sphere. The authors have articulated development prospects of administrative and legal regulation of information relations of public procurement subjects in the economy, emphasized the necessity of enhancing preventive control in the form of general (analytical) monitoring, particular procurement procedures supervision, and further automation of the procurement process. Moreover, the article focuses on the professionalization of the public procurement sphere through educating qualified personnel to work with modern information systems and technical devices. The authors also support the necessity of continuing the implementation of measures aimed at the legislation improvement, public procurement sphere professionalization, international relations development and proper executions of functions established by the Law of Ukraine “On Public Procurement”.


2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Ryszar Piasecki

Health reform in Chile attemps to improve healthcare of the citizens. The authorities of the country managed to combine both the private (ISAPRE) and public systems FONASA). The biggest success was the creation of AUGE (state subsidies for 66 diseases). The unsolved problems are as follows: long waiting lists and shortages of beds in public hospitals, shortage of medical doctors and specialists. As far as the pension reform is concerned Chile was the first state in the world which in 1981 totally privatized the public pension system. Unfortunately, the fruit of changes in Chile is less optimistic (extremely low pensions) than it was initially assumed. According to specialists the only chance for a correct work of the pension system is introduction of the system which would combine two forms, i.e. a state intergenerational agreement and capital system.


Author(s):  
Jue WANG

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.從世界範園看,代際公平早已經是一個與養老金改革、醫療資源配置等問題深度捆綁的核心議題。代際公平危機首先凸顯在養老金赤字上,並進一步危及到社會養老保險制度的公平性,危及到養老保障制度的基礎--代際契約。就倫理層面而言,如何在老齡化的壓力重構代際契約成為決定代際公平辯論走向的關鍵。本文擬簡述目前在代際公平辯論中佔主導地位的解釋範式,並批判性地審查其倫理意蘊與局限性。在此基礎上,本文擬提供一種基於儒家倫理思想的替代性的解釋範式。本文試圖論證儒家倫理及其蘊含的代際契約不僅為解決代際公平問題提供了新的思路,而且也為當前中國養老制度改革提供一些重要的政策建議。From a global perspective, generational equity has long been a core issue in pension reform and medical resource allocation. Indeed, discussion of generational equity involves a financial crisis related to pension deficits and the fairness of the pension system, which is a crisis that threatens the ethical foundation of the social insurance institution, i.e., the intergenerational contract. From an ethical perspective, how to reconstruct the intergenerational contract under the pressure of aging is crucial to the debate on generational equity. This study critically examines the dominant framework of the debate on generational equity and proposes an alternative interpretation framework based on Confucian ethics. Finally, this study argues that Confucian ethics and the interpretation of the intergenerational contract not only shed new light on the issue of generational equity but also provide important policy implications for the current pension system reform in China.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 33 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.


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