III. Summary of Social Security Revenue by source, FY 2008


Fiscal year 2008 Social Security Revenue amounted to 101,537.8 billion yen.

( i ) Percentages in each category indicate that Social Insurance is 56.6%, Tax is 32.2%, and Other Receipts is 11.2% of the total.
( ii ) Revenue has decreased 1.1% as compared to the previous fiscal year.

Table 7 Social Security Revenue by source, fiscal years 2007 and 2008
Table7 Social Security Revenue by source, fiscal years 2007 and 2008
 Notes: 1.  ( ) The ratio to the total is expressed as a percentage.
2.  “Other receipts”, where “Income from capital” is included, fluctuates depending on the capital gain from the employees’ pension funds.

Figure 3 Social Security Expenditure by revenue, scheme, category, function and target individuals, fiscal year 2008
Figure3 Social Security Expenditure by revenue, scheme, category, function and target individuals, fiscal year 2008
Notes:
1.
“Child, family” refers to medical insurance in the form of a lump sum maternity allowance and child-rearing allowance, employment insurance in the form of parental leave allowance, day-care facilities administration costs and single parent family and disabled child allowance.
2.
“Health and medical care for the aged” by scheme and “Medical care” by target individuals include medical care benefits paid under both the new medical care system for latter-stage elderly after April 2008 and the past system until March 2008.
3.
Fiscal year 2008 Social Security Revenue amounted to 101.5 trillion yen (excluding transfer from other systems). The figure in square brackets [ ] represents the ratio of the Social Security Revenue total.
4.
Fiscal year 2008 Social Security Expenditure amounted to 94.1 trillion yen. The figure in parentheses ( ) represents the ratio of the Social Security Expenditure total.


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