The Social Insurance Agency (社会保険庁, Shakaihoken-chō) was an agency administered by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. After a scandal involving millions of lost pension records, on January 1, 2010, it was abolished and replaced by the Japan Pension Service.[1] It was responsible for four types of social insurance

  • Employees’ Health Insurance
  • Seamens' Insurance
  • Employees’ Pension Insurance
  • The National Pension.[2]

Pension records problem

The Social Insurance Agency computerized their records in 1979[3] and in 1997 the SIA attempted to integrate three different databases together.[4] Numerous problems resulted from this and in May 2007 it was exposed by the then-opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan that 50 million pre-1997 premium payers could not be matched to any citizen enrolled in the system.[5] The then-ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, subsequently suffered a loss in the 2007 election, which was partly attributed to the pension scandal.[6]

By January 2010, 14 million of these 50 million records had been consolidated with an existing pension number.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Japan Pension Service website English information Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on November 24th 2010
  2. ↑ Social Insurance Agency website Agency Structure Retrieved on November 23rd 2010
  3. ↑ The Japan Times website Bloated bureaucracy exposed Retrieved November 24th 2010
  4. ↑ The Japan Times website Special panel to investigate pension fiasco Retrieved November 24th 2010
  5. ↑ The Japan Times website Poll-wary ruling bloc gropes to fix pension fiasco Retrieved November 24th 2010
  6. ↑ The Japan Times website Ruling coalition suffers huge defeat Retrieved November 24th 2010
  7. ↑ International Social Security Association website Establishment of the “Japan Pension Service” Retrieved on November 24th 2010

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