The Social Assistance System In Sweden And The Enlightenment To China

In the beginning of 17th Century,Sweden had built up the early mould of the social assistance and passed the Poor Law.Although the time they passed the law is later than some Europe countries,it still have the far more long hi-story than China.Having accumulated various experiences for a long time,Sw-eden developed so quickly that it founded generalized type of social assistance and became Welfare State.Recently Sweden has introduced the Social assista-nce Act to back up their social assistance system and give the regulation.The meaning of social assistance system in China and Sweden is not tota-lly the same because the most social assistance in Sweden is generalized type and it is impossible for us to tell the difference these with the social welfare.In the end,this passage will defined the social assistance as the basic living allowance as well as the housing allowance.In Sweden,the basic living allowa nce include the child basic allowance,the disability basic allowance,the fami-ly basic allowance and the unemployment allowance.These assistance system share the same trait that is the level is relatively higher and offer an better st-andard of living for people in Sweden and promote the fair in the society.At the same time,however,it also bring the problem of assistance dependency.The highly expenditure on social welfare also have some negative effect on Sweden's economic development.Thanks to Sweden's government hard work,Sweden went through this kind of tough problem by the reform of localization and promote the development of economy.The social assistance development of Sweden have been reformed towards localization and socialization.The social assistance system in Sweden and the basic living allowance in China have the same point as well as a large amount of differences when talk about procedure of applied for and the threshold,such as the location,certificati-on,staff who charge for the assistance,local differences what's more if take the-ir children's income into consideration and the refinement of the standard of as sistance and the standard of moral examination.Through the comparing we can learn the experiences which is useful for China.For example,unifying and stan-dardizing the formulation and adjustment of the assistance standards;building a refined and categorization low insurance system;building a humanitarian system access and exit mechanism;training professional personnel to provide social assistance and family planning;paying attention to and giving full play to the role of individual,enterprise and society in the field of social assistan-ce;To guarantee the operating environment of the system,improve the ability to prevent fraud from different angles,strengthen the legislative work of low i nsurance and deal with the relationship between the central and the local gove-rnment.Social assistance has been a critical part for China to eliminate the poverty,so taking the Sweden as the proper example will help China a lot in developing Chinese social assistance.