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A flickering future
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.12.04, 2004, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses threats to pension funds in the public sector and their possible impact on the recruitment and retention of staff.
Pension reform: who is proposing what?: PPI briefing note number 16
- Author:
- PENSIONS POLICY INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- Pensions Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Pension reform looks inevitable in the UK. When the Government produced a Green Paper in 2002, despite their intended focus on private pensions, most major organisations said reform of the state pension system was needed. Now the Pensions Commission has confirmed the diagnosis of worsening pension provision, most organisations will be reviewing their pension policy proposals to make submissions
Reforming pensions in Europe: evolution of pension financing and sources of retirement income
- Authors:
- HUGHES Gerard, STEWART Jim
- Publisher:
- Edward Elgar
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 305p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of pay-as-you-go public pensions in the face of ageing populations. Many of the reforms involve greater reliance on personal saving and the development of capital markets to fund private pension arrangements. The contributors from Europe and the United States demonstrate the complexity of pension provision and reform, and highlight the dangers of focusing on one particular model. They consider critical issues and debates about how to finance pensions, present evidence on the effects of pension reform on the incomes of the elderly, set out objectives to ensure intergenerational equity in public pensions, and examine different pathways to pension coverage. They also argue that recent reforms in Europe may have the effect of reducing the incomes of future pensioners while exposing them to uninsurable risks associated with private pensions. This book addresses an important issue by identifying differences in pension systems throughout the EU and Europe as a whole,
From the Conservative welfare state to an uncertain something else: German pension politics in comparative perspective
- Authors:
- LAMPING Wolfram, RUB Friedbert W.
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 32(2), April 2004, pp.69-91.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The 2001 German pension reform represents the beginning of a new welfare politics of a new welfare state. It adds to the former exclusively pay-as-you-go financed public system a capital funded private pillar. This private pillar is a politically regulated welfare market. The new pension policy is a striking example of a structural reform in a politically risky policy field. This change was made possible by two processes: first, running out of options in respect of traditional concepts of problem solving and, second, a new experimental policy style. As a result, the new German welfare state is on an irrevocable path from a conservative welfare state to a new recombinant type mixing different elements of 'worlds of welfare'.
Democratic governance and bureaucratic politics: a case for pension reform in Korea
- Author:
- YANG Jae-jin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 32(2), April 2004, pp.193-206.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Governance theories have two theoretical tendencies: downplaying the role of the state and overemphasis on cooperative relationships among participants in the policy-making process. This article seeks to redress the balance by paying more attention to bureaucratic politics and conflicting policy networks, using the case study of Korean pension reform. This orientation enables us to understand the effect of governance not only on relations between the state and civil society, but also on the relative power among state bureaucracies. The Korean case demonstrates that the establishment of democratic governance under the leadership of President Kim Dae Jung reinforces social bureaucrats' power over the social policy domain,which had long been within the power of economic bureaucrats in the heyday of the Korean developmental state.
Access to social rights in Croatia: pension insurance
- Authors:
- BAGARIC Nevenka, MARUSIC Ljiljana
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 11(1), 2004, pp.39-61.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
Looks at pension reform in Croatia that introduced tripartite public-private pension system in order to established a long-term sustainable system in which the responsibility for social security in old age would be moved from the state to the individual. [Article in Croatian].
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 19: National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2004
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Announces the new disregard for student childcare grants for NHS funded students. Announces the new disregard for the Age related payments to pensioners over 70. Local authorities are reminded of the same effect on charges for home care. Reminds local authorities that the Skipton Fund payments came into force on 12 May 2004 to people who have been infected with Hepatitis C as a result of NHS treatment with blood or blood products. Reminds local authorities that as of 29 October 2004 Housing Benefit is payable to people who enter residential accommodation for a short period. Reminds local authorities that Pension Credit can be backdated for 12 months.
Towards a citizen's pension: interim report
- Author:
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PENSION FUNDS
- Publisher:
- National Association of Pension Funds
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A ‘Citizen’s Pension’, also known as a Universal Pension, is a basic amount payable to every individual over state pension age who passes a residency test. This report considers a Citizen’s Pension of at least £105 a week in 2004 terms, indexed to earnings, as this is the current minimum level of income a person over pension age would have through Pension Credit. The benefits of a Citizen’s Pension would be adequacy, simplicity, inclusion, encouragement to save, efficiency and certainty. Transition to a Citizen’s Pension would speed up the change occurring anyway to the state pension system, while improving it. With a Citizen’s Pension, the role of the state in poverty prevention is clarified, making decisions on any further state role (including enhancing voluntary or compulsory saving) clearer. No pension policy can satisfy all preferences, so a decision for a Citizen’s Pension would be made because it gives the best package overall for the long-term.There are perceived practical problems with a Citizen’s Pension, but this report suggests that some of these are misplaced, and that others can be resolved.
Ageing and employment policies: Italy
- Author:
- ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 129p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Paris
In the face of rapid population ageing and the trend towards early retirement, there is a need to promote better employment opportunities for older people. Much has been said about the need for reform of old-age pensions and early retirement schemes but this may not be sufficient to raise employment rates for older people significantly or to reduce the future risk of labour shortages. Both
Age and security: how social pensions can deliver effective aid to poor older people and their families
- Author:
- GORMAN Mark
- Publisher:
- Help Age International
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In recent years there has been growing interest in the potential for using social protection instruments as tools for development in poor countries. At the same time, the debate around pension reform becomes more urgent as numbers of older people grow, even in the developing world. This presentation makes the case for non-contributory pensions as a means of addressing old-age poverty