英文摘要 |
Since the Labour Insurance Scheme (LI) began to provide pension benefits after the reform of 2008, the number of beneficiary who chose to receive pensions kept heavily outnumbered than those lump-sum benefits counterparts. It might illustrate beneficiaries’ understanding of the aim of, and support of, pension insurance programme in Taiwan from that time. However, the changing demographic structure caused by population ageing and low total fertility rate, as well as the unsustainability of pension finance due to lack of well-design, as pointed out by actuarial reports in 2012 and after, the LI may not be able to afford the benefits soon. As a result, pension reforms were considered and proposed since that time. Among all the propositions, the design based on Germany’s Entgeltpunkte or similar scheme was mentioned, but was not further discussed in the law-making procedures.
This article attempts to take Belgian pension point system, which was arranged to replace current system by 2030, as the example for the reason that Belgium’s current system is similar to the LI and its plan may help us to rethink Taiwan’s pension reform. This research develops some simulations of pension point system on the basis of the thoughts and formulae of the Belgian plan with different situations of demographic elements, replacement rates, qualification period of full pension, insured wage, contribution rates and so forth. Accordingly, this research suggests that pension point system is a feasible reform plan for further discussion, and there are still some other schemes to be introduced in those simulations as a whole in order to complete the pension insurance system. |