Each Ortu In Japan Who Wants To Have A Baby Will Get A Fund Of IDR 57 Million

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JAKARTA - Every way the Japanese government tries to do it so that its citizens want to have children. One of them with the lure of more than IDR 57 million.

Japan is struggling to find ways to increase its low birth rate. In fact, the numbers have tended to decline for some time now.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare hopes that the additional cash promises at the bank will encourage more people to add more babies in their families.

Currently, new parents in Japan receive a Childbirth and Childcare Lump-Sum Grant of 420,000 yen after the birth of their child.

Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Katsunobu Kato wants to increase that amount to 500,000 yen or more than IDR 57 million. That figure will be proposed to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida which is expected to be approved so that it can be implemented for next spring as quoted from Japan Today, Monday 12 December.

However, the addition of 80 thousand yen does not seem to be enough to motivate parents to have children. That figure is also not an effective incentive.

The calculations are like this. the cost of giving birth to children for a national average of around 473,000 yen.

That means that even if grants are increased, parents will see, on average, less than the remaining 30,000 yen as soon as they return from the hospital. This figure is even less than the amount why Breweries gave workers to eat out of this holiday.

It will not be too much compared to the total cost of raising children to self-adults, and it is doubtful that an 80.000 yen increase will tell citizens to have babies.