Denmark: The welfare policy faces all citizens

Denmark: The welfare policy faces all citizens
Reporters of Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang JingZhong and Wu Bo The welfare construction of Denmark starts early, the coverage rate is wide, enjoy very high reputation in the world. The welfare system of this country belongs to the typical North European mode: Gao FuLi, high tax revenue. Particularly, just give play to the functions and powers of the state, use the huge public organization, regard tax revenue as the financial source, make each citizen can be equal and enjoy the social welfare, have reduced people's income gap effectively. The Denmark superior welfare policy is set up above the high tax revenue foundation, almost all the social welfare comes from the direct or indirect tax revenue. According to income level, the number of paying taxes is different, the taxes on enterprise are quite high. According to the newest data that the Danish statistics bureau announce, about 72% of state revenues are used to support every welfare construction, including government's pension, decrepit citizen's subsidizing, unemployment compensation, education and scientific research and medical treatment and health care,etc.. Pay taxes the citizen can enjoy various welfare treatment. The social welfare system of Denmark mainly includes welfare of pension, unemployment compensation, medical treatment and health care, pregnant and perinatal period, children and teenagers welfare,etc.. The basic old-age pension system is a core of the Danish welfare policy, its aim is to let all Danish citizens have guarantee to live after retirement. Danish citizen reaches the age of 65 and begins to get government's pension promptly. According to the the intersection of pension and computing standard that country announce newly this year, for 5552 kronas (nearly equal to 1063 dollars) low a basic pretax every month such as pension most ,According to the personal actual conditions, and the difference of for instance states such as the marriage, work before retiring,etc. floats to some extent. The subsidy substantially as adding respects such as the house, transportation fares,etc., the basic pension is pretax can reach about 11,000 kronas (nearly equal to 2106 dollars) . The endowment insurance of Denmark mainly has 3 kinds of types: Legal pension, pension of labour market and personal pension. The legal pension is by national expenditure, such as government's pension and pension ahead of time,etc.. The pension ahead of time is directed primarily to the crowd who loses the ability to work, there is no age limit; The metal is in collective properties that the labour market supports parents, both sides of the labour and capital pay a kind of fund on time every month, the proportion pays 2/3 for the employer, employees pay 1/3; The metal personal behavior that individual supports parents, can buy through the pension company or bank. The segregation of duties of the social security is clear that Denmark supports parents. The central government is responsible for making the policy, standard and plan in this respect, most duties are transferred for the local government to bear. The local government has the right to carry on the concrete welfare and legislate, implement the social policy, in order to lighten the burden of the central government effectively. In unemployment compensation, compared with other countries of Europe, the Danish rate of unemployment has been relatively low all the time, but this country is the highest country of global unemployment benefit. The prerequisite of getting the unemployment benefit is, the time of member of unemployment foundation that employees must approve as the government has been for one year at least. In financial reform scheme that will it be May 2010 put forward, work jobless for 52 weeks in the past 3 years according to Denmark, can get and is equivalent to it and gain 90% of the unemployment benefits in two following years on average in the past. The Danish government encourages the jobless to reemploy actively, the job centre of the government makes corresponding training and reemployment plan to each of jobless' detailed conditions, help and supervising it to return to the labour market as soon as possible, and offer vacant position information. The medical treatment and health care system of Denmark is mainly made up of elementary medical treatment and health care and hospital. The former include ordinary practitioner, the intersection of training and clinic and the intersection of family and nurse,etc. that municipal government hire mainly, its service is clicked more, the coverage rate is wide, aim at offering the medical treatment nearby to resident. Danish resident ( Including often occupying the foreigners of Denmark) Rely on the personal medical insurance card, whether it obtains employment, enjoy free medical care and care of hospital. According to the national social guarantee plan of European Union which European Union will issue newly in 2010, retired personnel, retired personnel and their family ahead of time that Denmark lives in the other countries of European Union will get the card of medical insurance of European Union. Should block and can enjoy free medical care in its residence country too to rely on, the expenses are undertaken by the Danish government. Children and teenagers welfare of Denmark are more complete. The Danish parliament has just passed according to 2011 " Family's subsidy " The amendment, " family's subsidy " Change into from this year " Children and teenagers subsidy " . 0 for each one- The 17 -year-old child can obtain nearly 17,000 Danish Krones (nearly equal to 3255 dollars) every year , 13,500 kronas (nearly equal to 2585 dollars) With 10,600 kronas (nearly equal to 2030 dollars) Subsidy,the age the less large to obtain one the less little subsidy be. Each family gets the upper limit of this subsidy for 35,000 kronas (nearly equal to 6703 dollars) every year . Besides above-mentioned welfare, Danish citizen can also accept free various are educated, students can also obtain living allowance from the government each month. The welfare policy of Denmark faces all citizens, does not assign stratum and economic situation, have really realized " learns to teach to some extent, the disease is cured to some extent, look after elderly properly " . Denmark good civil order, safe and harmonious social living environment, universality and integrality of the welfare policy are worth drawing lessons from.

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