Research On Government's Responsibility To Settle The Basic Old-age Insurance Problems For The Landless Peasants

With the development of our country's industrialization and urbanization, the scale of land expropriation has become larger and larger, and the number of landless peasants has become bigger and bigger. As a result, the landless peasants' social security problem, especially their old-age security problem has become one of the major factors which affect the stability of society and arouse the entire society's widespread interest. Through studying our country's current situation of the landless peasants'old-age insurance, this article introduces the problems and defects of the countryside basic old-age insurance system, and analyzes the necessity and possibility of the solutions to these problems. This article points out that our government has unshirkable responsibility (including policy responsibility, financial responsibility, legal responsibility and surveillance responsibility) in settling these problems. The article lists five countermeasures for these problems from the viewpoint of government's responsibility:First, to build and improve a social security system, which should cover urban and rural residents, for the landless peasants to participate in the basic old-age insurance. Second, to strengthen the legislation of the security system for the landless peasants have legal support. Third, according to the principle, which the governments and the units can be capable of, individuals can accept, to set up a reasonable social security cost-sharing mechanism among governments, units and individuals. Fourth, to increase the governments'financial input into the countryside basic old-age insurance, establish landless peasants'basic old-age insurance fund to ensure their demands for funds. Finally, to establish national basic old-age insurance transform mechanism to connect rails with the landless peasants basic old-age insurance system and common basic urban and rural old-age insurance system for the landless peasants'convenient and long-term insurance participation.