Some municipalities offer congratulatory cash to new-born residents, others present congratulatory gifts with a record of birth, while third focus on low income households to deliver either powdered baby milk or fresh milk until their children become one year old. To find out services of your area, please enquire at your local municipal administrative office.
Allowance |
Details |
Conditions |
Procedures, contact |
| Lump-sum payment of childbirth and childcare |
・ 300,000 – 380,000 yen for national health insurance contributors;
・ 350,000 yen for health insurance contributors |
Recipients must be contributors of either national health insurance or health insurance programs |
National health insurance: local municipal administrative office;
Health insurance: employing office or local office of the Social Insurance Agency
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| Maternity allowance |
60% of the standard daily payment |
1 Recipients must have contributed for a health insurance program consecutively for one year or more
2 When retired from the job, recipients must give birth to their children within six months after retirement |
At the company that employs the recipient or local office of the Social Insurance Agency |
| Child allowance |
・ From birth until three years of age:
10,000 yen per month
・ Three years or older until the completion of elementary school (until 31 March immediately after the 12th birthday):
5,000 yen per month for the first and second child;
10,000 yen per month for the third and any subsequent child |
Income restrictions applied |
See I Other welfare, 1-1 Child allowance |
| Others |
Congratulatory cash, gift, etc. for birth |
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Programs differ among municipalities, details must be asked about at local municipal administrative office |
