Recommendation to relax national pension reduction criteria... Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission judges ‘half payment based on possibility alone’ excessive

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Sang-hyun = The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has ruled that it is excessive to reduce the national pension solely on the possibility of receiving benefits due to an industrial accident.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission announced on the 2nd that it has prepared an 'improvement plan for the overlapping benefit adjustment system' and recommended it to the National Pension Service and the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service to protect the rights and interests of national pension recipients.

According to the Civil Rights Commission, the current National Pension Act stipulates that if a beneficiary of the National Pension's disability/survivor's pension is eligible to receive disability/survivor's benefits under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, etc. for the same reason, only half of the national pension is paid.

However, through guidelines, the National Pension Service has designated cases where there is a possibility of receiving benefits under the Industrial Accident Insurance Act, etc. or where it is unclear whether or not there has been an occupational accident, as 'priority subjects for adjustment of duplicate benefits' and only pays half of the national pension.

In response, the Civil Rights Commission recommended that the Corporation's guidelines be revised to exclude cases where there is a possibility or where it is unclear whether or not there is a disaster from benefit adjustment.