It was learned on the 28th that the number of applications for welfare benefits in the first half of fiscal 2024 (April to September) increased 2.8% from the same period last year to 133,274. Kyodo News analyzed data released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The actual number of applications exceeded the number received during the period when the economy worsened due to the spread of COVID-19 infections and when cuts in living support due to the pandemic hit low-income earners hard. The effects of wage increases have not been widespread, and it appears that many people are suffering as prolonged high prices put strain on their household finances. With the holiday period lasting up to nine days and many public institutions closed over the New Year period, there is a need to step up support to prevent poverty and isolation. Local governments and support groups are beginning to distribute food and provide telephone consultations. The number of applications from April to September 2012 was an increase of 16.8% compared to the same period in 2019 (114,067 applications), before the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, compared to the same period last year, there was a 1.1% decrease in 2020, when the spread of the COVID-19 infection began, and an increase of 3-4% from 2021 to 2022 due to the worsening economic and employment situation. In 2011, when special living support measures were reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number increased by 5.4% to 129,606 cases. December 28, 2024 21:08 Kyodo News.
>>1 Social security costs in 1990 were 11.6 trillion yen The budget for social security costs in 2025 is 38.3 trillion yen Bond redemption costs in 1990 were 14.3 trillion yen Bond redemption costs in 2025 are 28.2 trillion yen Japan’s constant tax revenue shortfall is due to the heavy social security burden and the repayment of the huge deficit bonds issued to cover it. In Japan, one third of the population is over 65 years old and their livelihoods are supported by social security, and two people, including people with disabilities and minors, support the lives of one elderly person, so the burden on the working generation is increasing. What Japan needs is to put to work those who are able to work but won’t. This means reducing pension payments to people under 80, reducing welfare benefits, and eliminating the 1.03 million yen barrier.
>>1 They’ll give you 500 yen And all the LDP members who received hundreds of millions to tens of millions of yen in bribes are innocent Are you a right-wing netizen who will justify this and criticize people on welfare? If I had a right-wing netizen in front of me, I’d lose my temper.
Medical care should be limited because we use foreign medicines and dollars for treatment, so if it was unlimited it would cause the yen to weaken. Other than that, give them money. Even if you give them money and take care of them, it will just be used for food and housing, which will go towards farmers’ income and real estate, and increase demand.
If you can make a living by working a little, you will work. If you can’t make a living even if you work, or if you can’t get hired because of your age or a chronic illness, it’s inevitable that you will end up on welfare. In short, the LDP’s system design is flawed.
I saw a news item recently that said welfare payments will be increased by 500 yen due to rising prices, and that the increase will apply to about 50 percent of recipients.
For the LDP and Komeito, life insurance-related interests are a strong constituency of votes. The more poor there are, the more solid the government will be.
In the first place, people on welfare aren’t affected by COVID at all. They get their money without working, and even if they work and it’s reduced, it would increase if they couldn’t work. Why are these people receiving support because of COVID?
When applying for welfare, check with all relatives and only when they have all refused assistance should you apply for welfare. Check up to 6 degrees of proportion.
Japan’s welfare budget is about 6 trillion yen for both men and women. 49% for men and 51% for women, so it’s almost half and half. But for women, the total budget for gender equality is 9 trillion yen, of which 7 trillion yen is spent on women facing difficulties in life such as poverty. When this 7 trillion yen is added, the actual welfare budget for women is 10 trillion yen. For men, it’s only 3 trillion yen. In other words, three times as much tax money is spent on women’s welfare as for men.
That’s why the LDP is increasing the number of people on welfare. This is why the inequality is widening and that’s why we’re talking about the lost 40 years.
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