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APPENDIX VII

Financial Arrangements of Statutory Provident Funds and

Social Insurance Schemes in Selected Asian Countries

Part A

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Social Insurance Schemes

Country

BURMA

INDIA

PAKISTAN

JAPAN

Branches Covered

Medical care, sickness, maternity and employment injury.

Medical care, sickness, maternity and employment injury.

Survivors' pensions, death grants or lump sum retire- ment benefits (Employees' Family Pension Scheme and Coal Mines Family Pension Scheme.)

Medical care, sickness, maternity and employment injury.

Medical care, sickness, maternity, employment injury, old-age, invalidity, death unemployment and family allowances.

Contributions and Public Subsidies

Insured person: 1% of earnings according to wage class Employer: 3% of payroll according to wage class

Government: annual grant equivalent to 1% of covered earnings.

Insured person:

approximately 2.5% of wages according to wage

class.

Employer: about 4% of payroll according to wage class Government: States pay one-eighth of cost of medical benefits.

1 Insured person:

1/% of earnings.

Employer: 16% of earnings.

Government: 1/6% plus administrative expenses for the Employees' Family Pension Scheme, and 1%,% of earnings to the Coal Mines Family Pension Scheme.

Insured person: Nil. Government: Nil.

Employer: 6% of payroll.

Insured person:

about 7.25% (men) or 6.45% (vomen) of earnings. Employer: between 7.57% (men) or 6.77% (women) and 15.35% (men) or 14.57% (women), according to industry, 70% of cost of employee family allowances. Government: 20% of pensions benefits, cost of administration and an annual subsidy for health insurance, speci- fied proportions of long term injury benefits; 25% of cost of unemployment benefit plus 33 1/3% of any deficit and cost of the administration, and subsidies to the scheme of children's allow-

ances.

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