The minimum wage of 80 for single unemployment benefits will be eliminated

(1)Eliminated the minimum wage of 80 for single unemployment benefits
(2)Input 20230711 AM 501
(3)Reporter Choi Jung-hoon
(4)The first one is
(5)The Ministry of Employment and Labor will review the adjustment of the lower limit of unemployment benefits to 60 average wages. Regardless of how much it earns, it will reduce the willingness to get a job guaranteed Criticism
(6)Reporter Choi Jung-hoon of E-Daily confirmed that the government is strongly considering cutting off the link between unemployment benefits and the minimum wage and changing the minimum guaranteed amount of unemployment benefits to 60 of the average wage

(1)According to E-Daily’s coverage on the 10th, the Ministry of Employment and Labor has the lower limit of unemployment benefits
(2)be considering adjusting to 60 of the average wage This is one of the key contents of the reform of the unemployment benefit system proposed by experts at the 7th meeting of the TF for improving the employment insurance system recently
(3)The unemployment benefits that workers with employment insurance can receive after losing their jobs are calculated as 60 of the average wage, but if the amount calculated as 60 of the average wage does not reach the lower limit of unemployment benefits calculated as 80 of the minimum wage, the lower limit of unemployment benefits will be paid
(4)This year, the lower limit of unemployment benefits is 61,568 won per day based on 8 hours of working hours, 1.85 million won (61,568 won x 30 days per month). Regardless of whether a worker earns 3 million won or 2 million won per month, the lower limit of unemployment benefits is more than 70 of unemployment benefits recipients Among the recipients of unemployment benefits last year, 453,000 people received more unemployment benefits than after-tax wages, which is why some criticize that unemployment benefits rather discourage job seekers from working
(5)On the other hand, the maximum amount of unemployment benefits has been maintained at 66,000 won per day for four years As a result, critics say that the structure in which workers who pay less insurance premiums receive more unemployment benefits is fixed The Employment Insurance Fund, the source of unemployment benefits, is on the verge of depletion in the event of an economic crisis
(6)If the lower limit of unemployment benefits is changed from 80 to 60 of the minimum wage, the monthly unemployment benefits of workers who receive about 2 million won per month will plunge from 1.85 million won to 1.2 million won