Ministry of Health， Labour and Welfare To correct gender disparities in survivor’s pensions， childless working-age people will receive a limited five-year benefit．
On the 30th, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare presented to the Pension Subcommittee of the Social Security Council (an advisory body to the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare) its intention to revise the survivors’ pension insurance received by men and women in their 20s to 50s who have no children under the age of 18 to a fixed-term payment of five years. Under the current system, a widowed wife can receive benefits for the rest of her life if she is 30 years old or older, but a widowed husband cannot receive benefits if he is under 55 years old. Taking into account the increase in dual-income households, we will correct the gender gap. The system reform will be carried out over several decades to ensure that current recipients are not disadvantaged. Due to a transitional measure, wives who are currently 40 years old or older are not expected to be affected even if they become eligible to receive benefits in the future. The plan is to include this in a bill to revise the public pension system to be submitted to the ordinary Diet session next year. The eligibility requirements for survivor’s pension vary depending on gender and whether or not the individual has children. Under the current system, if there are no children, a wife who was under 30 at the time of her husband’s death can receive the pension for five years, and if she is 30 or older, she can receive it for the rest of her life, in principle. On the other hand, a husband who loses his wife becomes eligible to receive benefits at age 55 and can start receiving them from age 60. In order to eliminate gender disparities, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will gradually raise the age at which wives are eligible to receive fixed-term benefits for five years from the current age of under 30. The plan calls for the creation of a fixed-term benefit scheme for husbands in their 20s to 50s. Since the wife’s period of receiving benefits will be shorter, consideration will be given to such measures as removing the annual income requirement (less than 8.5 million yen). In addition, the “middle-aged and elderly widow’s allowance” received by childless wives aged 40 to 64 will be gradually abolished. Jiji.com News Published on July 31, 2024 at 7:10am.
>>1 If you think it doesn’t concern you, you’re very wrong. Next, they’ll put a 5-year limit on people with children. Then they’ll stop paying disability pensions for 5 years. Finally, everyone’s pensions will be limited to 5 years, and NISA will be taken away. Making things worse little by little is a common tactic used by the corrupt Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
>>6 Even though there was this preferential marriage policy called the survivor’s pension, which was essentially a singles tax system, the number of people getting married continued to decrease.
>>9 It’s been said for a long time They’re going to abolish the privileges of regular employees If non-regular employees are also forced to have social insurance, that’s next.
A wife who was under 30 at the time of her husband’s death can receive the benefit for five years, while a wife over 30 can receive it for the rest of her life in principle. A wife whose husband died at the age of 29 years and 11 months would go crazy lol. Why didn’t he try for another month?!
Let’s find all of these things and revise them all at once. There have been similar reforms in the past, such as allowances that were previously limited to single-mother households now also applying to single-father households, so look for other similar cases.
Because of survivor’s pensions, old ladies often force themselves to keep themselves alive even when they are close to death. As long as they are alive, the survivor’s pensions continue to pile up. And medical expenses are practically free.
※ The membership period required to receive an old-age pension has been increased to 10 years, but the membership period required to receive a survivor’s pension remains at 25 years.
Since we have come to a society where women’s rights are recognized and men and women are equal, it’s only natural that legal gender disparities should also be corrected.
Japan is one of the most fortunate countries in the world; it has low social security costs and taxes, and is an easy country to live in, with a fulfilling retirement life.
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