Boon Arayapon (Dr. Boon)
D.V.M. LL.B. SSO Board Candidate 2026
  • Founder — "Khor Keun Mai Dai Khor Taan" (We Reclaim, Not Beg) movement
  • Lead organizer — Section 39 pension class action, 1,271+ plaintiffs, 38+ provinces
  • Built boonarayapon.com — Thailand's leading SSO rights resource in 8 languages
  • TikTok 150K · Facebook 122K · YouTube 29K — largest Thai pension reform audience

Why a Veterinarian and Lawyer?

Effective SSO Board membership requires two things simultaneously: understanding the real pain experienced by contributors, and understanding the legal mechanisms available to fix it.

As a veterinarian (D.V.M.), Dr. Boon understands diagnosis from symptoms — not from theory. As a lawyer (LL.B.), he understands which legal tools to deploy once the problem is identified. And as a Section 39 contributor himself, he is not speaking about this crisis from a distance.

What Makes This Candidacy Different

Dr. Boon is not an academic who studied pension systems. He is the person who built the evidentiary record — gathering 1,271 affected contributors, documenting their pension amounts, obtaining Supreme Court Ruling 3307/2567 as legal validation, and organizing a coordinated national march on the Lawyers Council. His candidacy is grounded in six years of operational proof, not campaign promises.

Six Years That Built the Case

20
2020
Founded "Khor Keun Mai Dai Khor Taan"
Identified the CARE formula injustice through his own Section 39 experience. Began collecting cases and building community.
21
2021
Launched boonarayapon.com
Built Thailand's first multilingual SSO rights platform — pension calculator in 8 languages, case documentation tools, and the Testimony Wall.
24
2024
Supreme Court Ruling 3307/2567
The Supreme Court validated the movement's core legal argument: using the ฿4,800 Section 39 ceiling to dilute Section 33 entitlements is an unlawful reduction of benefits.
25
2025
Filed Administrative Case with the Lawyers Council
853+ members filed the initial proceedings. 44+ formal cases filed at the Lawyers Council headquarters alone, with simultaneous actions in dozens of provinces on May 7, 2026.
26
2026
Running for the SSO Board
Because sustained change requires presence in the room where pension policy is decided — not just outside the building.
1,271+
Members in the class action
38+
Provinces represented
6 yrs
Fighting for Section 39
150K
TikTok followers

A Three-Point Platform — Specific and Measurable

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Policy 1
#StopCARE — Endorse FAE-60

Oppose the CARE formula and push for adoption of FAE-60, which calculates pension on actual earnings from the final 60 months of contributions. Already validated by Supreme Court Ruling 3307/2567.

#FAE60 #Dika3307
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Policy 2
Minimum Pension of ฿10,000/Month

Workers who have contributed for 15+ years must receive a pension sufficient to live on — not ฿1,666/month that falls 55% below the international poverty line. This requires actuarial recalculation, not new spending.

#MinimumPension #LivingWage
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Policy 3
The Three Asks: Choose · Return · Borrow

The right to choose FAE-60 / the right to reclaim the pension differential already lost / the right to borrow against one's own contributions in emergencies. These are not new entitlements — they are corrections of existing unlawful calculations.

#ThreeAsks #PensionRights

Why This Election Matters

The SSO Board has direct authority to propose and approve the pension calculation formula. If the incoming board endorses CARE, the scenario documented in Part 2 — ฿1,032/month after 23 years — will continue for every future retiree in Thailand.

If the board endorses FAE-60, it restores the actuarial promise under which 25 million Thai workers made their contributions.

If we are not in the room
where decisions about our money are made —
who will be?
— The reason Dr. Boon is running for the 2026 SSO Board