LIN WAN-YI AIMS FOR SUSTAINABLE PENSION FUNDS|自爆曾被威脅 林萬億:改革讓年金永續

In other news, On Jan. 12, the head of the pension reform committee Lin Wan-yi admitted in a media intervIew that he had NOT ONLY been verbally subjected to attacks, but he had even been physically threatened. However, he still looked forward to creating a fairer and more sustainable system for future generations. Meantime, over the past few days, Vice President Chen Chian-ren, has been posting graphics on his facebook page to help clarify the pension reform process. Here's a look. Pension reform has come to the stage of local meetings, but at each of these meetings there has been considerable conflict. On his facebook page, Pension reform committee convenor, Vice President Chen Chien-jen has graphics of six geese to explain the reform process. Before reform, the geese are sick and lay few eggs, but after reform, each can lay healthy eggs. On Jan. 12, he posted a graphic he had drawn himself, showing that pension reform is purely a matter of numbers, the object was to allow everyone to use it long-term, so that the fund was sustainable. In his interview, Lin said he wanted to solve conflict between generations. ==LIN WAN-YI pension reform committee convenor== The reason there was so much confrontation during the process of this reform is that everyone was anxious. After the actual decision, some people may feel that it had to change sooner or later. Lin said many young military, public school teachers and civil servants criticized that those already retired took full advantage of the system although only paying the minimum into it. This was a common truth and not just maligning retirees. The reform aims to change the 18 percent interest rate for savings. High-level legal officials pronounced that the 18 percent does not contravene trust protection, but it had a certain historic background, to look after living costs. A basic living cost protection would be set and anything over this would be changed. For other workers, the length of time that wages were paid into the scheme would be adjusted. Apart from the military, the whole country should come under the same system, including civil servants, so that how much was paid in, was related to how much could be taken out. ==LIN WAN-YI pension reform committee convenor== The insurance you pay out is calculated on your wages. When you retire, if you use the highest rate of the last day or last five years, to calculate then you take out more than you have paid in. Who is losing out in this? All the young workers, that's who is losing out. That's what is happening with public school teachers and civil servants, so we hope to bring back generational justice. Retired teacher Lin Hui-hsin excoriated Lin Wan-yi on the internet , but Lin took this with good grace, saying that when the President assigned him to take charge of pension reform he could only do his best and try to finish it this year and hope that it would not be used in local elections next year to obscure the real issues and lose space for reasoned discussion. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 年金改革進入分區座談階段，不過幾乎場場都爆發衝突，年金改革委員會召集人，副總統陳建仁，日前在臉書畫6隻鵝，解釋年金改革前，鵝體弱多病，蛋生得少，但改革後，每隻鵝都能正常下蛋，今天又PO出親手畫的圖，強調年金改革是簡單的數學題，目的讓所有人可以領得久，讓基金永續。主導年金改革的政務委員林萬億，今天接受廣播專訪強調，要解決世代爭議。 ==年金改革委員會執行長 林萬億== 所以這次的改革為什麼 會有某種程度的對抗 是因為大家覺得有點焦慮 應該說下定決心之後 也許有些人就覺得遲早會改 林萬億表示，不少年輕軍公教人員批評，退休軍公教"繳得少少、領得飽飽"，是現在的普遍現象，不能說被汙名化，而且年金改革要調整18%優惠存款，大法官已解釋，18%不違反信賴保護原則，但18%有其歷史背景，為照護生活，會訂出基本生活保障，超過的才要改革；另外勞工方面，將調整平均投保薪資的採計期間，除軍人之外，要全國各界一致，公教人員也是，繳多少領多少。 ==年金改革委員會執行長 林萬億== 你平常繳的保險費 就是那時候的薪水來計算 可是你要退休的時候 你卻用最高的　 最後一天 或最後的五年 最高來的計算 所以你領得多嘛　 可是你繳少領得多 誰吃虧 同樣是勞工的年輕人就吃虧 因為你領多繳少嘛　 所以他們就吃虧 公教人員也是如此 所以我們希望 把世代正義拉回來 年金改革大反彈，退休校長徐慧芯在網路大罵林萬億，不過林萬億一笑置之，也坦言總統點名他做改革，只能盡力，並趕在今年完成，就是不想被明年地方選舉，模糊焦點，失去理性討論空間，改革完成後也將功成身退。 記者 李曉儒 謝其文 台北報導