The 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. It was responsible for four types of social insurance
* Employees’ Health Insurance
* Seamens' Insurance
* Employees’ Pension Insurance
* The National Pension.
Pension records problem
The Social Insurance Agency computerized their records in 1979 and in 1997 the SIA attempted to integrate three different databases together. Numerous problems resulted from this and in May 2007 it was exposed by the then-opposition party, the
Democratic Party of Japan
The was a centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist:
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* to centre-left liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016.
The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic ...
that 50 million pre-1997 premium payers could not be matched to any citizen enrolled in the system. The then-ruling party, the
Liberal Democratic Party, subsequently suffered a loss in the
2007 election, which was partly attributed to the pension scandal.
[The Japan Times websit]
Ruling coalition suffers huge defeat
Retrieved November 24th 2010
By January 2010, 14 million of these 50 million records had been consolidated with an existing pension number.
[International Social Security Association websit]
Establishment of the “Japan Pension Service”
Retrieved on November 24th 2010
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Social
Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not.
Etymology
The word "social" derives from ...
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