본문 바로가기
  • Home

Improvement of Survivor’s Benefit in Korean Worker’s Compensation Insurance from the perspective of life cycle

오종은 1 Lee, Chanmi 1

1근로복지공단 산재보험연구센터

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Features of public pension income security is becoming more important due to therecent rapid aging. However, there are also challenges that the financial stability ofpublic pension should be addressed at the same time in the hidden side of socialsecurity’s building. Survivor’s benefit in Korean worker’s compensation insurancetends to be overly excessive paid compared to other social insurance and foreigncases even though the purpose of the social security considers something else. Therefore, this study was to reevaluate the part of being paid excessively from theperspective of life cycle to present the improvement of survivor’s benefit schemefor long-term funding through comparing of domestic social insurance with foreigncases. The findings are summarized as the following improvement direction. 1. payment standard improvement through the provision of stop payment. 2. paymentstandard improvement reflecting income replacement rate by life cycle. Through this system improvement, Korean worker’s compensation insurancescheme will lay the framework for financial stability in the long term and can performthe roles and functions as social security system properly.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.