Shanxi Province Social Assistance Funds Research

The social assistance system is in social security system earliest appears with the most basiccontent, is the social security system’s first cornerstone. In the running of the social assistancesystem, the input and use of social assistance funds is a core part of the social assistance system asa whole. Social assistance funding for the full play the function of social assistance plays adecisive role. This article unifies the Shanxi situation, conducts the analytical study to socialassistance principal item’s funding.The perspective of the total amount of investment in social assistance funds from ShanxiProvince, the level and proportion of total expenditure on social assistance and financial income,sub-items, sub-urban and rural social assistance funding situation in Shanxi Province. Throughcomparative analysis of the data and found that: the assistance fund investment total quantity toincrease, the rescue level to enhance, social assistance project between the relatively reasonableproportion of capital investment, the cause of rural social assistance to get further attention.However, behind these achievements, there are still financial investment of social assistance funds,large differences in urban and rural social assistance, cities and counties in fiscal financingdifficulties, some of the social assistance projects have large balances and fund-raising channelson a single issue. Existences of these questions, seriously affected the efficiency of Shanxi socialassistance funding, then has created certain hindrance to the profound development of Shanxisocial assistance system. Investigates its reason, mainly with the Shanxi Province, the existingeconomic development and social assistance legislation the absence of unreasonable socialassistance financial input mode, the transfer payment system is not perfect, and urban and ruralsocial assistance system partition factors related.Therefore, targeted to solve many problems that exist in the Shanxi Province SocialAssistance funding, it is necessary to combine the actual situation in Shanxi Province toaccelerate the pace of the social assistance system of laws and regulations on the legislative level.To establish the tasks and content of the social assistance legislation; from social assistancefinancial input mode level, should be the basis for the establishment of financial burden-sharingmechanism, straighten out the financial responsibility of governments at all levels, to increase thegovernments at all levels of financial investment, and a gradual increase in relief level. At thesame time, fiscal responsibility, the focus of a clear social assistance project. The establishment ofsocial assistance each project, the swap payments between regions, and promote balanceddevelopment between the various projects and areas of social assistance; appropriate expansionand continued development of the gaming industry and improve the social fund-raisingmechanism, to broaden the sources of social assistance funds.