A Picture of 2025 According to “RENGO’s Vision for Social Security in the 21st Century”

A Comprehensive Strategy for a Welfare Society based on “Security, Equality and Solidarity”

A Welfare Society Centered on Labor“Mutual Aid” Networks●A society that guarantees security of living for all people●A society where people have mutual respect for the significance and values of each others’ labor (working)●A society where people bring forth and raise children, who can grow up in good health and freedom●A society that guarantees full employment and the full application of social security

An operational entity responsible for the total operation of social security

Clarifying the Roles of the CentralGovernment and Local Governments
and Strengthening Mutual Linkages

Local RENGOs

Full Application of Social
Insurance to Employed Workers“Social Security Fund”(a third-party authority independent from the central government)

Community
PeopleSocial Security = The Provision of “Reassurance”

Japan Federation ofSenior Citizens andRetired Citizens
Organizations

Labor Credit
Associations

Citizens
Groups・NPOs

ZENROSAIA Social Safety Net that Encompasses All Lifestyles and Stages of LifeWhen you reach the mandatory retirement age

PensionExtending Healthy Life Expectancy

When you need nursing care services

Medical Care

Nursing Care

●Establishing quality medical services centered on patients●Trust-building between doctors and patients and disclosure of medical records●Establishment of a fair and reliable health insurance scheme (with patient’s
co-payment unified at 20% of the cost of medical treatment)●Creation of a secure medical care scheme for the elderly●Transfer of the government health insurance system to a “public corporateentity” (integration of the system into the “Social Security Fund”)●A comprehensive nursing care security scheme for everyone in
need of nursing care and for the disabled●Expansion of eligibility for benefits to all ages
●In principle, maintenance of the service charge at 10% of nursing
care costs●Establishment of provisions for around-the-clock nursing care
●Enlargement and improvement of the quality of nursing care services

Separation of Medical Careand Nursing Care andStrengthening Links
between Them

Nurturing children who are full of life

Ensuring that everyone can live in freedom and security

Child Welfare & Support for Child-RaisingSocial Welfare●Development of communities, society and workplaces that allow working
people to raise children with a feeling of security●Enlargement of a diversity of childcare services that can be used byanyone at any time
●Provision of a child allowance at ¥10,000 per child, per month, until
graduation from junior high school●Application of health insurance coverage to pregnancy- and childbirth
related expenses

Links between
Child Welfare andSocial Welfare●Social security scheme centered on users●Development of barrier-free society based on normalization●Legislating the criteria for welfare benefits●Development of assistance for independence for homelesspeople

Links with Employment Policies
to Support Independence

When you fall ill

Integration of the Welfare Scheme
for the Disabled into theNursing Care Security Scheme

Positive Health/Preventing
the Need for Nursing Care

Linking Pensions
with Employment●Establishment of a stable pension system that is sustainable even in theenvironment of a falling birthrate and aging population●Establishment of a “Pension for All” scheme based on universalism (full publicfunding of the basic pension)●Guaranteeing a proper benefit level as a pillar for supporting retirement life(a two-tier scheme consisting of the basic pension and earning-related supplement)●Maintaining reserves equivalent to benefit payments for approximately one year
at the peak year of the aged population●Move from company retirement pensions to old-age pensions●Unification of public pension schemes

When you lose your job or suffer a workplace accident

Employment-Related Social Security●Guarantee of unemployment benefits that provides security for the unemployedand enlarges support services for reemployment●Development of social institutions and an environment for the stabilization of employment●Expansion of compensation for workmen’s accident and establishment of apayment mechanism that can promptly respond to applications for compensation●Enlargement of comprehensive measures to prevent industrial accidents atworkplaces

Preventive and Post-Accident Measures for theIndustrial Accident Compensation Scheme andCoordinated or Integrated Administration with HealthManagement Programs under Preventive Medicine●Life Cycle and Social Security (Example)
Birth(Childhood)

Getting a JobMarriageChild-Birth(Child-Raising Years)

Retirement(Old Age)

Medical Care & Nursing Care Security & Social Welfare
Compensation for Workmen’s Accident and Unemployment
Child Welfare

Support for Child-Raising(Disability Pension & Survivor’s Pension)PensionMunicipalities●Changes in resources allocation from public works projects to welfare and social
security programs through reform of the fiscal structure●Redefinition of public administration as an entity to which citizens delegate themanagement and administration of the social security system and programs●Development of a consensus on how to manage the costs, benefits and reallocation ofsocial security resources●Ensuring the unique nature of localities through promotion of decentralization●Radical strengthening of support for bringing up the next generation and raising children

Affiliates

Institutional Reform to Put the Basic Philosophy into Practice●“Universalism” directed to all people●Movement toward “use and contracts” based on “need” and “choice”●“Participation and sharing of responsibility” between bearers of theburden and beneficiaries●Mutual aid between generations and within generations: “socialsolidarity”

Enterprise-basedunions

The Basic Philosophy of Social Security

Voluntary Welfare Activities
in Communities・Life Support
・Positive Health・Support for Child-Raising, etc.