Chiba prefecture employee illegally overpaid 340,000 yen in welfare benefits, “sympathizing with the situation” | NHK | Chiba Prefecture August 1, 2024 18:40 Chiba Prefecture has revealed that an employee in charge of welfare work illegally overpaid two recipients by a total of more than 340,000 yen, claiming to sympathize with their financially difficult situation. The person who fraudulently paid out too much welfare benefits was a male employee in his 20s who worked at the Chosei Health and Welfare Center in Chiba Prefecture. According to Chiba Prefecture, the employees had illegally overpaid a total of more than 340,000 yen to a man in his 60s and a woman in her 90s who were receiving welfare benefits over a period of about a year up until last month. The problems came to light when the person in charge was replaced due to personnel transfers, and it turns out that staff had been paying out more assistance than the upper limit for initial housing costs and other expenses, and had been calculating the amount of diapers provided during hospitalization at a higher amount than the actual amount. When making payments, the amount must be entered into the agency’s internal system and then approved, but the staff member deliberately did not receive approval, saying, “I sympathized with the situation of the recipients who were short of money, for example, the standard amount was not enough to cover rent, and I did it because I wanted to do something.” The prefecture will ask the two recipients to return the money and will consider disciplinary action against the employees, as well as require another employee to verify the amount of the payment, in an effort to prevent a recurrence.
>>1 This is a case where we should bill the recipients and the employees. The employees are causing damage to the prefecture. Don’t give them money out of sympathy.
>>1 What, you didn’t check it before? You made the decision on your own and it was okay? If it were me, I’d be so scared I’d ask someone to check it. That’s so irresponsible of us using tax money.
>>1 That’s a good story! I thought that if he was a man in his 20s, he would have been lenient with a single woman in her 30s with some ulterior motive, but the fact that he was paying for diapers for an elderly person makes me want to cry.
A kindhearted civil servant in his 20s ends up having to pay extra after showing kindness to two elderly people in their 60s and 90s who need diapers. Hmm.
Is this a system where anything can be done with sympathy lol? If sympathy can be done with anything, then please show some sympathy to decent taxpayers and give them a tax cut lol.
I understand your feelings, but you shouldn’t let someone who can’t distinguish between personal and public matters manage your money. That’s the same as stealing.
I’ve never seen news of welfare officials giving more than they need, even though it’s true that they don’t give welfare to people in need. But it’s possible that the two people who received it are deceiving young, kind people.
Well then, help him out of your own pocket, you scumbag employee. They’re definitely guilty of embezzling taxpayers’ money in cahoots. It’s a waste of time and money to detain and imprison them, so the death penalty is fine for both of them.
I thought it was the usual Osaka pattern of him having a sexual relationship with a young woman, but I was wrong. It’s being paid for with taxpayers’ money, so I want it to be strictly managed. In the first place, getting welfare at that age means he spent his time playing around without saving any money when he was young.
The government was reluctant to provide benefits to a pair of sisters in Hokkaido who had a disabled younger sister, causing them to starve to death, so it seems they are too lax with their authority to provide benefits.
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