A government must be held accountable for its attention to the underprivileged, such as the poor, the homeless, the disabled, migrant workers and refugees. To draw attention to the problematic access of migrant workers to public health care in Thailand, I translated an article from news website Prachatai.
Taxation of social security benefits
Thailand blog regularly devoted attention to the fact that both the Netherlands and Thailand are allowed to levy income tax on social security benefits obtained from the Netherlands, such as the AOW, WAO and WIA benefits.
Reader question: Is there a social safety net for Thai people due to the corona crisis?
Now that the corona crisis is also hitting Thailand hard, I wonder whether there is a social safety net for Thai people? That may well be for civil servants, government workers and office workers, but I mean the Thai in unregistered professions. Such as bargirls, street vendors, etc. How do they make money? Is there any help for that? I'm worried.
You will but….
You will but…. were born in Thailand and can fully enjoy the sun, sea or the beautiful nature and vast rice fields every day. You smile all the time because that's what your country is known for. The trees grow up to the sky. Or not?
How and in what way is it possible to VOLUNTARILY pay a contribution to the Belgian social security (no self-employed person). A word of explanation: Suppose a family comes to live in Thailand. Father has a retired Belgian nationality, wife Thai (has both nationalities) and the children also have dual nationality. The father is a member of the health insurance fund and the rest of the family is dependent.
Statement: 'Thailand needs to grow towards a welfare state!'
Tino argues that Thailand needs to grow towards a welfare state. Thailand is rich enough to pay for social services. The sick, the disabled and the elderly are now too dependent on their children.