This article analyze the welfare needs of the elderly that presented as a
category of new social risk with the advent of post-industrial society. There
happens the change of the employment model, family model and the weakening
of welfare states in the post-industrial society. The point is that it brings about
the various categories of new social risks; youth unemployment, poverty of
women, suffering from child-bearing. In addition to these risks, the elderly
become one of the new social risk bearer.
The purpose of this study is to suggest the elderly income guarantee policy.
The one is policy alternatives for childcare credit in National pension which
strengthens current childbirth credit. In order to suggest policy alternatives for
childcare credit, care credit on other countries are compared. The other is
unemployment credit. Unemployment credit system is a system to protect
members who would have trouble in their silver years due to unemployment.
When Korea adopts the unemployment credit system in its national pension, it is
expected that the blind spot would decrease.