In recent years, Shanxi Province, with the active support of the Party and the government as well as the efforts of civil affairs departments at all levels to explore, has unified the implementation of various types of welfare systems throughout the province.
In recent years, with the active support of the party and the government and the efforts of the civil affairs departments at all levels, a unified welfare system has been implemented across the province, and the newly revised Shanxi Province Implementation of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly in China <Chinese People's **** and the State > Measures came into effect on January 1 this year.
Additionally, the Shanxi Provincial Senior Citizenship Card has been discontinued, and seniors are required to use their ID cards or other valid documents to enjoy the benefits.
Here's what 11 cities in Shanxi Province have to offer to the elderly in terms of welfare benefits:
Taiyuan
Social security: 90-99 year olds are given a health care allowance of 50 yuan per person per month. Xiaodian District, Taiyuan City, took the lead in including the elderly aged 80 years or older in the coverage of the old-age health care allowance. The payment standard is 50 yuan per person per month for those aged 80-99, and 300 yuan per person per month for those aged 100 and above.
Tickets: elderly people over 70 years old are exempted from headway tickets for trips to state-owned scenic spots in the province.
Travel: free rides on the city's public **** buses (trams) and city rail transit for the elderly over 70 years old.
Medicine: 65 years old and above, all the elderly living in the community for more than six months, regardless of household and non-household population, each year in the place of residence of the township health centers (village health room) or community health service centers (stations) to enjoy a health management services for the elderly. These include: lifestyle and health status assessment, in which inquiries are made to learn about the basic health status of the elderly, their ability to take care of themselves and their lifestyles, such as smoking, drinking, diet and physical exercise, as well as the illnesses they have suffered from in the past, and the common symptoms of chronic illnesses they are currently suffering from and the treatment they have received; and a more comprehensive health check-up once a year, which includes a general physical check-up (taking temperature, pulse, blood pressure, height, weight, and skin, A more comprehensive annual physical examination includes a general physical examination (temperature, pulse, blood pressure, height, weight, and skin, superficial lymph nodes, and routine examination of the heart, lungs, abdomen, etc., as well as a cursory judgment of the oral cavity, eyesight, hearing, and motor function, etc.), and an ancillary checkup (routine blood, urine, fasting glucose, blood lipids, electrocardiogram, liver function, renal function, and B ultrasound).
Tatung
Medical: Priority is given to hospitals, and all medical institutions provide quality health care services for the elderly, and for those over 70 years of age, the general outpatient registration fee is waived with a certificate.
Tickets: Older people are exempted from purchasing tickets when they enter parks with their preferential treatment cards. Entering scenic spots, tourist attractions and cultural palaces, clubs, libraries, art galleries, museums, science and technology museums, exhibition halls, memorial halls, theaters and other public **** cultural and entertainment venues, where tickets are charged are half-price, and free for the elderly over 70 years of age (at present, Datong City, elderly people aged 60 years old or older to enjoy free access to the Yungang Grottoes, Huayan Temple, Shannhuashishi Scenic Spot of the preferential treatment policy); institutions, enterprises and institutions, schools, townships, streets, and other places of interest are also free of charge. (At present, senior citizens over 60 years old in Datong City enjoy free access to the Yungang Grottoes and Huayan Temple and Shanhua Temple scenic spots. With the preferential treatment card into the charge of sports and fitness places, the implementation of half-price discount.
Travel: Half-price concessions are offered to senior citizens over 65 years of age who take the city's public ***** buses (trams), and senior citizens over 70 years of age are free of charge.
Other: Courts at all levels shall give priority to accepting, hearing and executing cases involving the elderly. Elderly people who meet the conditions for judicial assistance shall be given priority in obtaining judicial assistance, and those who have difficulties in paying litigation fees may apply for a reprieve, reduction or exemption. When a notary public handles the notarization of an agreement on fostering, support or alimony, the notary public's fee may be appropriately reduced or waived in accordance with the prescribed procedures, taking into account the financial situation of the elderly. Elderly persons may use public **** toilets free of charge on the basis of a preferential treatment card.
Shuozhou
Social security: the establishment of a sound system of old age allowance for the elderly. By the city, county (district) department of aging in conjunction with the human resources and social services departments to gradually bring the elderly over 80 years of age into the scope of the old age allowance protection, the development of a unified standard of allowance, and monthly old age allowance to the eligible elderly. For the city's financial difficulties of the elderly and disabled elderly to establish a subsidy system as well as accidental injury insurance system for the elderly.
Elderly care services: governments at all levels provide community elderly care places at no or low cost according to the standard of no less than 0.1 square meters per capita, and focus on supporting social forces to undertake community and home-based elderly care services. Through the integration of old urban areas and built residential areas of unused land, property, accelerate the construction of community elderly service centers, to solve the community home nursing service places. Actively promote the "medical care integration" model of old age, co-ordination of medical resources, focusing on the elderly chronic patients, elderly rehabilitation patients and other need for long-term care of the elderly to provide "medical care, nursing, health, housing, health care" five-in-one medical care services.
Travel: elderly people aged 60 or above can enter parks, public **** libraries, cultural centers, museums, art galleries, museums of science and technology, memorial halls, memorial mausoleums and other public **** cultural facilities free of charge. They are also given priority in buying bus, boat and airplane tickets, and in checking luggage and articles. seniors over 65 years of age are given free access to tourist attractions and free rides on city buses.
Medical care: elderly people aged 60 or above are given priority in all kinds of medical institutions for consultation, laboratory tests, inspections, payment, medicine collection and hospitalization, etc. Elderly people aged 65 or above are exempted from general outpatient registration fees, and resident elderly people are also allowed to go to primary medical and health care institutions under their jurisdiction to set up a free health file, and to enjoy free medical checkups and health guidance at least once a year.
Lvliang
Social security: In recent years, Lvliang City has continued to make new progress in schooling, medical care for the sick, nourishment for the elderly, housing for the elderly, and happiness for the elderly based on the relevant national policies. Fenyang City, for example, from January 2016, Fenyang City, the city's administrative jurisdiction of the resident account over 80 years old non-administrative institutions retired elderly (except for the provincial and local-level enterprise units and foreign retirees) to pay "old age allowance". For those aged 80 to 89, the monthly subsidy is 50 yuan per person; for those aged 90 to 99, the monthly subsidy is 100 yuan per person. For those aged 100 and above, the monthly subsidy is 200 yuan per person. The old age subsidy is implemented from January 2013 onwards. Starting from 2013, Fenyang City will subsidize 10 yuan per person per year for accidental injury insurance for the elderly over 60 years old.
Cultural activities: Lvliang City has set up senior citizen associations and senior citizen activity centers based on townships and villages. So far, 127 senior citizen associations have been reported in Lvliang city.Starting from 2016, the Lvliang Municipal Committee of the Elderly raised its own funds to equip all senior citizen associations and senior citizen activity centers in the city with cultural and sports supplies. Each village's senior activity center receives three sets of cultural and sports supplies for free, including chess, army chess and poker.
Yangquan
Medicine: According to the newly revised Implementation Measures, starting from January 1, 2017, the elderly will be given priority for medical consultation, laboratory tests, inspections, payment of fees, collection of medicines, and hospitalization in all types of medical institutions in Yangquan City; elderly people aged 65 years or older will be exempted from the registration fee of general outpatient clinics; and primary medical institutions should establish a free medical service for elderly people aged 65 years or older living in the area. Primary medical institutions should establish free health records for elderly people over 65 years of age living under their jurisdiction, and provide free health management services at least once a year, including lifestyle and health assessment, physical examination, auxiliary examination and health guidance; medical institutions in Yangquan City should set up a green channel for the elderly to seek medical treatment.
Shanxi Provincial Elderly Privilege Card can continue to be used as a free registration voucher before June 30, and all medical institutions should require the elderly to show their ID cards or other valid documents when providing privileged services.
Travel: In order to facilitate the elderly over 65 years of age to take the bus, Yangquan City Bus Company will be eligible for free bus senior IC card, the implementation of the elderly with IC card free ride on the bus. Any elderly person with permanent residence in Yangquan and aged 65 or above can apply for a free temporary bus pass, which is valid until February 28th. Elderly people with free passes can take all buses free of charge except for 901 road (special express), tour 2 road and other bus routes. At the same time, in order to give the elderly a period of adaptation, the first half of this year, the elderly over 70 years old can still use the original red cover "Shanxi Province, the elderly preferential treatment card" free ride. But from July 1, no longer as a voucher for free bus rides. When traveling with the temporary pass, you need to carry your ID card with you for inspection.
Tickets: Elderly people over 60 years old are exempted from first-track tickets to provincial state-owned and state-controlled tourist attractions.
Linfen
Social security: Linfen City is now implementing the old age allowance in 11 counties, cities and districts, Yicheng County has set up a rural elderly relief fund for the elderly in special hardship (the size of the first phase of the fund is 500,000 yuan), and 250,000 yuan of elderly care subsidies per year has been included in the financial budget; Fenxi County has set up an elderly relief system for the elderly in special hardship.
Travel: Elderly people over 70 years old in Linfen city and 9 counties, cities and districts can take city buses free of charge with their privilege cards. Among them, all people in Xiangning County can take the bus for free, Houma City, Huozhou City, Quwo County, Fenxi County, Jixian County and Fushan County will extend the free bus privilege policy to 60 years old, and Hongdong County will extend it to 65 years old.
Medicine: primary community health care organizations around the world, generally free health checks for the elderly over 65 years old, of which, Jixian, Daning County, Pu County, etc. will be free medical checkups down to the age of 60 years old.
Tickets: Elderly people in the city aged 60 and above can visit government-invested parks and tourist attractions free of charge with their preferential certificates; state-controlled scenic spots are exempted from headway tickets; and elderly people aged 70 and above are exempted from entering all tourist attractions and parks in Linfen City.
Others: Since 2013, Linfen City*** has built 297 day care centers for the elderly in rural communities, of which 183 have been operated, 44 have been completed, 70 are under construction, and*** there are 3105 beds. The service sub-units of Linfen Ageing Volunteer Team have developed to 315, with more than 32,000 team members and more than 30 volunteer service stations. The city's elderly volunteers have grown to 130,000 people, accounting for more than 20% of the city's elderly population, and the accumulated volunteer service time for the year has reached more than 3 million hours.
Yuncheng
The General Office of Yuncheng City Government on Jan. 13 issued the Notice on Further Improvement of Preferential Services for the Elderly in Yuncheng City, which further adjusted and clarified the contents and methods of preferential treatment for the elderly.
Tickets: the elderly over 60 years of age, enter the city's state-owned and state-controlled tourist attractions free of headway tickets, enter other tourist attractions to enjoy half-price tickets; free access to parks, public **** library, cultural centers, museums, art museums, science and technology museums, memorials, monumental mausoleums, and other public **** cultural facilities; the elderly aged 65 years old and above, free entry to tourist attractions.
Travel: the elderly over 60 years of age, priority in the purchase of tickets, boat tickets, plane tickets, priority in the consignment of luggage and goods; the elderly over 65 years of age, free to take the city's public **** car. The previous implementation of the "Shanxi Province, the implementation of the & lt; Chinese people's rights and interests of the elderly and the State Security Law & gt; approach" provides that the elderly bus preferential age of 70 years old or older, Yuncheng special increase in the 60-70 years old to enjoy half-fare preferential provisions. The "notice" and the revised "approach" to maintain consistency, the elderly city bus preferential age from 70 years old to 65 years old, no longer add half-fare preferential provisions. In order to facilitate free rides for the elderly, while avoiding frequent use of ID cards lead to loss, 65 years of age or older, can hold their own ID card to the bus company for free senior IC card, with the card to enjoy free rides in the city public **** car preferential treatment.
Medical: the elderly over 60 years of age, in all types of medical institutions, priority consultation, laboratory tests, inspections, payment, medicine, hospitalization. 65 years of age or older, exempted from the general outpatient registration fee; primary health care institutions should be within the jurisdiction of the 65 years of age or older resident elderly people free of charge to set up a health file, at least once a year to provide a free physical examination and health guidance, to carry out health management services.
Other
Other: the elderly over 60 years of age, exempted from the labor and funding obligations of rural public welfare; free use of public **** toilets. Tourist attractions, medical and health institutions, stations, airports and public **** transportation does not implement the number of seats should be 65 years of age or older to provide preferential treatment services, should be set up for the elderly preferential treatment window, waiting area, the elderly seat and other facilities to help the elderly, set up obvious preferential treatment service logo, the content of the preferential treatment services are publicly announced.
Jincheng
Social security: the implementation of the system of honoring the elderly, 90-99 years old, by the municipal finance to the annual payment of 2,400 yuan of honoring the elderly; more than one hundred years old and 80-89 years old, by the county (city, district) finance each year, respectively, 3,600 yuan and 800 yuan of honoring the elderly. For the elderly aged over 100 and 80-89, the county (city and district) finance shall respectively give them 3,600 yuan and 800 yuan of respect for the elderly each year; the municipal people's government shall set up a special hardship relief fund for the elderly of not less than 200,000 yuan each year, which shall be mainly used to provide relief to the elderly in special hardship in rural areas who have no source of livelihood, have no legal provider or legal provider who is incapable of providing for them, and who are impoverished because of illnesses (including natural disasters); the people's governments of all counties (cities and districts) shall set up an annual special hardship Relief funds; elderly special hardship relief funds to be included in the same level of the financial budget, earmarked; the people's governments at all levels of the elderly welfare undertakings each year to have the corresponding investment in order to build old people's welfare homes, homes for the elderly, old people's apartments, the elderly medical and rehabilitation centers and places of old people's cultural and sports activities and other facilities; urban and rural construction departments at all levels of the construction of old people's welfare facilities and ancillary facilities into the urban and rural construction planning.
Travel: the city's 65 years of age or older with ID card can take the city bus free of charge. Previously, Jincheng City, the implementation of the elderly over the age of 70 years old can be free to take the bus policy. Jincheng City Public Transportation Company will issue "bus senior card", 65 years of age or older with a card can be free of charge (at present, "bus senior card" is in an intense preparatory stage, can not be handled for the time being). Jincheng City Public Transportation Company has formulated transitional measures: all the household registration in our province, the elderly over 65 years of age to take the bus, just show your ID card can be free to take the city bus, the provinces 65 years of age or older can not enjoy this preferential policy for the time being. Priority is given to the purchase of tickets for buses, boats and airplanes, and priority is given to the check-in of luggage and articles.
Tickets and medical care: free headway tickets for entering the city's state-controlled tourist attractions, and half-price headway tickets for entering other tourist attractions. Free admission to parks, public **** libraries, cultural centers, museums, art galleries, science and technology museums, memorial halls, memorial mausoleums and other public **** cultural facilities. Priority in medical consultations, laboratory tests, examinations, payment of fees, collection of medicines and hospitalization in all types of medical institutions. Free use of public **** toilets.
Xinzhou
Travel: the city's senior citizens over 65 years of age with ID cards and other valid documents, are free of charge on all city buses in the urban areas of Xinzhou City.
Medicine: the city's medical institutions above the second level to establish a green channel for the elderly to visit the hospital, set up a window for elderly services, set up obvious signs of elderly services. 60 years old or older at all levels of various types of medical institutions to give priority to medical consultation, laboratory tests, inspections, payment, medicine, hospitalization and so on. The registration fee for general outpatient services for older persons aged 65 or older is waived. Each primary medical and healthcare institution establishes health records for free for resident elderly people over 65 years of age within its jurisdiction, and provides free medical checkups at least once a year and health management services.
Tickets: the elderly over 60 years of age to enter the province's state-owned and state-controlled tourist attractions free of headway tickets, access to other tourist attractions to enjoy half-price concessions for headway tickets preferential treatment. the elderly over 65 years of age to enter the tourist attractions free of charge. Tourist attractions to provide preferential treatment services for the elderly place, set up the elderly preferential treatment window, waiting area, the elderly seat and other facilities to help the elderly, set up obvious preferential treatment service logo, publicize the content of preferential treatment services.
Jinzhong
Social security: elderly subsidies for the elderly, each year for the elderly aged 100 years old and above, the arrangement of no less than 1,000 yuan of subsidies; counties, districts, cities, etc. by age, level, each year, for the elderly aged 80 years old and above, a certain amount of subsidies issued. Conditional townships and street offices, combined with their own economic conditions, for the elderly to issue a certain amount of old-age subsidies. 60-year-old, 70-year-old, 80-year-old and 90-year-old, respectively, to receive a different amount of subsidies. the first 10 months of 2016, jinzhong city **** for the 55,143 elderly people to issue subsidies of 13,757,400 yuan. Among them, the municipal level issued 76,000 yuan of old-age subsidies for the city's centenarians at the rate of 1,000 yuan per person per year.
Tickets and medical care: seniors over 60 years old get into parks, museums, memorials, science and technology museums, residences of celebrities and other public cultural facilities for free, and use public toilets for free. seniors over 70 years old enjoy the above preferential treatment, but also get free rides on public transportation, free access to tourist attractions, free registration fees for general outpatient clinics, and free TV installation fees for seniors who live alone. The health department provides free medical checkups for centenarians at least once a year and establishes health records.
Changzhi
Social security: elderly people over the age of 80 receive an annual allowance for the elderly. Municipal finance for each 100 years of age and above each year to arrange for no less than 2400 yuan of subsidies; counties (urban areas) and high-tech zones are to be divided into age, level by level each year for the 80 years of age and above the senior citizens to arrange for no less than 200 yuan of subsidies; have the conditions of the townships (townships, streets and offices), villages (neighborhoods) should be combined with their own economic conditions, for the elderly within the jurisdiction of the old age subsidies of a certain amount.
Tickets: the elderly over 60 years of age free admission to parks, museums, memorial halls, memorial mausoleums, art museums, science and technology museums, cultural palaces (museums) and other places; the elderly over 70 years of age, free admission to the statue of Yandi, Guanyin Hall, the Erxianzhuang, the old top of the mountain, the Temple of the City God, the Dragon Cave, Wuxiang County, the Eighth Route Army Memorial, the Grand Canyon in Huuguan County, the Lingshong Mountain in Qinyuan County, the Taihang Taixing in Pingshun County, and other tourist attractions. Water Town and other tourist attractions.
Travel: priority purchase of bus, boat, plane tickets, priority check-in luggage, goods; urban public **** transportation should be set up "the old, young, sick, disabled and pregnant" special seats; 70 years of age or older can enjoy free rides on the city buses preferential treatment.
Medical care: in all kinds of medical institutions, priority is given to medical treatment, laboratory tests, inspections, payment, and medication, and if hospitalization is required, priority is given to arranging for beds; elderly people over 70 years of age are exempted from the registration fee for general outpatient services; the health department will provide free medical checkups for local elderly people over 100 years of age at least once a year, and will set up a health file.
Other: stations, airports, medical institutions and other services should be set up in the elderly preferential service signs, express service content; marriage registration is exempt from the cost of labor; do not undertake to run the countryside public welfare services of the labor and funding obligations; the elderly aged 70 years old or older living alone need to install cable TV, with the township (township) people's government, the street office issued a certificate, exempt from the installation fee.