今日主題：公務人員18%爭議
主題說明：
行政院長關中認為公務人員的18%優惠，應該逐漸消除。不過他也表示這是他個人的言論，不代表政府單位的意見。
1995年之前擔任公務員者，退休後享有18%優惠存款利率，但若是1995年之後進入公務體系者，則未能享有此優惠。銓敘部表示，18%優惠利率在未來的17年當中，會造成國庫2百萬兆的支出。截至目前，已有41萬的退休人次正享受著18%的優惠。
關中認為，應該要為18%政策立下日落條款，他表示這是為了保障無特權者的權益，關鍵在於應該降低退休公務員的所得替代率。所得替代率指的是公務人員退休前的每月薪資及退休金比率。過去幾十年，公務人員的所得替代率已經高達90%，若再加上優惠利率，則政府退休人員的所得替代率會超過100%。他認為應該逐漸將比率調降為70%。
關中的說法引發全國公務人員協會的反彈，該協會理事長陳川青表示，優惠利率的政策早在1995年就已經生效廢止了，關中的言論，將會牽涉到法律追溯的問題。陳川青並認為政府不應該拿退休人員開刀，以解決目前政府自己所面臨的財政問題。
新聞原文：
Ex-civil
servants' 18% interest rate should go: Kuan
Friday, December 14, 2012
By Adam Tyrsett Kuo ,The China
Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Examination Yuan President Kuan Chung (關中) said yesterday that the
18-percent preferential interest rate for retired civil servants should be
gradually eliminated.
Kuan said his
position was a personal one rather than a consensus among government officials.
Political
commentators have noted that despite ongoing controversy over pension reform,
the government has yet to incorporate the preferential interest rate issue into
its agenda.
'18 percent'
Retired civil
servants who entered the civil service prior to 1995 may place a portion of
their pensions into an account that affords them an 18-percent interest rate.
Civil servants who entered the civil service after 1995, however, are not
entitled to the preferential treatment.
The discrepancy
between the 18 percent and the actual interest rate is paid for from the
national coffers. According to the Ministry of Civil Service (銓敘部), the government will have to
pay out NT$2 trillion over the next 17 years.
According to one
report, approximately 410,000 retirees currently enjoy the 18-percent interest
rate. Roughly an equivalent number of people still on active duty are entitled
to the 18-percent rate once they retire.
Kuan's 'Personal
remarks'
“There ought to be a
sunset clause or even a gradual elimination of (the 18 percent),” said Kuan.
The purpose of reform
is to ensure that the unprivileged are protected, Kuan said, adding that the
key is to reduce the earnings replacement rate of retired civil servants.
The earnings
replacement rate is the ratio between a retiree's monthly pension and his or
her salary before retirement.
Over the past decade,
the earnings replacement rate of retired civil servants has reached as high as
90 percent, Kuan said, adding that if one takes the preferential interest rate
into account, the earnings replacement rate of government retirees exceeds 100
percent.
The Examination Yuan
president went on to add that the number should be reduced to 70 percent.
“The fact that
government retirees receive more than what they did while working has caused a
significant amount of discomfort among the public; therefore, the system has to
be changed,” Kuan said.
Backlash
The National Civil
Servant Association (NCSA) yesterday criticized Kuan for his remarks on the
issue.
“I don't understand
how he proposes to eliminate it,” said NCSA chief Chen Chuan-ching (陳川青). “The preferential interest
rate policy was effectively abolished in 1995.”
There seems to be an
implication of legal retroaction in Kuan's remarks, Chen added.
The government should
not be going after retirees in order to solve its current financial problems,
Chen stressed.
NCSA deputy chief Yeh
Ren-cheng (葉仁成) said that by making
pre-mature remarks on the issue as Examination Yuan president, Kuan has put the
members of the Ministry of Civil Service in a difficult position.
“If the ministry's
draft doesn't correspond to Kuan's remarks, will it have to alter its
position?” Yeh asked.
(http://chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/ 2012/12/14 /364063/Ex-civil-servants.htm)
1. consensus KK [kənˋsɛnsəs] DJ [kənˋsensəs] 輿論
2. discrepancy KK [dɪˋskrɛpənsɪ]
DJ [disˋkrepənsi] 不一致, 不符, 差異; 不一致之處
3. unprivileged KK [ʌnˋprɪv!ɪdʒd]
DJ [ʌnˋprivlidʒd] 無特權的
4. retroaction KK [͵rɛtroˋækʃən]
DJ [͵retrəuˋækʃən] 追溯效力
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