[HEALTH] The City of Yokohama: Cancer Check-up for Women

Aiming at early discovery and treatment for cancers, the city of Yokohama provides citizens cancer screening services. You may have received this letter in the photo or a free coupon for screening.

Please scroll down to read the brief explanation of what is written in each document in the photo above.

*Please remember that fiscal year starts in April in Japan. So "this year" may mean from April this year (to March next year).

[WELFARE] Temporary Welfare Benefits Information in Some Languages

Here is the link to the website of Yokohama city where we can find the information and "how to fill in the form" in English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Tagalog.

http://rinji-kyufu.city.yokohama.lg.jp

Please scroll down to the middle and find 外国版チラシ等
The very top is a flyer (information paper) and the second is "how to fill in the form", then the monthly paper of Yokohama city.

[This information was provided by YOKE]

[CHILDCARE] Special Benefits for Child Rearing Households (Temporary Allowance)

The city of Yokohama sent us the documents for Special Benefits for Child Rearing Households in the mid-July and you must have received this orange envelop if you or your partner is eligible to receive the benefits. To our regret, there are seems to be no English version, so we'll try to translate what is written on these documents.

There are two sheets of paper and an envelop. This time you DON'T have to put a postal stamp to send it back. The green one is a description of the benefits, and the gray one is a form to fill in and to be send back.

[GOVERNMENT] Temporary Allowance Call Center (Available in English, Chinese and Korean)

The city of Yokohama announced that they prepared a toll-free number to accept inquiries on the temporary allowance.

Duration: through 8th May (THU) 2014 to 28th February (SAT) 2015
9:00-18:00 (also on weekends and holidays including New Year holidays)
Available in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean
Please open the PDF below to find the toll-free number starting with 0120 (calls from mobile phone are acceptable).

*This information is provided by YOKE.

Source (PDF in Japanese): http://www.city.yokohama.jp/ne/news/press/201405/images/phpJb7eNH.pdf

The previous article on our blog.

[GOVERNMENT] Temporary Allowance for Families with Young Children (2014)

As the consumption tax is raised to 5% to 8% from the first April, 2014, the government decided to offer ¥10,000 per child for families with young children (under some conditions) to financially support them.
Here is the link to the official announcement by the ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Offial announcement by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kodomo/kodomo_kosodate/rinjitokurei/index.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Summery

Targets: Those who received the Child Allowance of January 2014 and whose income is below the limitation of the Child Allowance.

Target Children: Basically the target children of the Child Allowance of January 2014, except the recipient of the temporary welfare allowance or the welfare benefit.

Amount: 10,000 yen per child

Procesure (Application): Go to the counter of your local ward/city office where you belonged on 1st January 2014*.  Then the local government will judge if the person in question has right to receive the allowance.

*Even if you live in Yokoahama now (in April 2014 for instance), if you lived in some other city on 1st January 2014 and registered as the citizen there at that time, you must apply to the city, not Yokohama.

Here is the link to the webpage of the city of Yokohama, but no detail is updated at the moment (26th March 2014) and is written "We will update the detail as soon as it is decided". So we have nothing to do right now.
http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kodomo/katei/kosodate/kosodatekyuhu/

[WELFARE] Child Allowance Payment Announcement

You may have received the yellow envelop recently. It is about the Child Allowance (Announcement of Payment).



Outline (translation):

Document no.1 (White paper)

Announcement of Child Allowance or Special Payment to be continued

You will receive child allowance or special payment of Heisei 25 fiscal year (2013) from June and after as follows:

@The name of Recipient
@Category (Child Allowance 児童手当 or Special Payment 特例給付)
@Your Address
@Basic number of children to be counted*
@Amount per month
@Date of start (continue)

*Basic number of children to be counted stands for a number of children under 16 (before finishing junior high school) and over 16 to 18 (before 31st March after turning 18) in your family. According to this number, if you have a third and after child(ren) over 3 years old to 12 (before entering junior high), the monthly payment is increased.

Document no.2 (Yellow paper front)

Dear Recipient of Child Allowance or Special Payment

1. About the amount of allowance
-The amount of allowance is 15,000 yen for under 3 years old and 10,000 yen for over 3 to before finishing junior high school. If the income of the child's guardian is over the limitation, the amount is 5,000 yen regardless the age of the child (all the amount is per child, monthly).

2. About the date of payment
June to September 2013 : 15th October, 2013
October 2013 to January 2014 : 14th February 2014
February to May 2014 : 13th June 2014
*Regarding the payment, you will receive an Announcement of Payment (transfer), which is sent to your letterbox. So please confirm the detail in the letter.

3. Please declare in case of the change of your status
(1) When a new baby is born.
=>Application of Change of Amount (will be payed from the following month of the applied day)

(2) When the recipient no longer fulfill the conditions to receive the allowance
(when the recipient is no longer the guardian of the child/when the recipient becomes a civil servant/when the recipient moves out of the city/Japan)
=>Report of Lapse to Receive Allowance

(3) When there are any change in status.
(when the number of children to take care decreased/when the child go abroad to study/when there is a change in family members/when the recipient gets married/when the income of the recipient excess the limit by the change of tax amount etc./when the recipient want to change the bank account to receive the allowance and so on)
 =>Please contact the office TEL: 045-641-8411 / FAX 045-641-8412
MON - FRI (except for holidays) 9:00AM-5:00PM

*You must return the proper amount of allowance if you receive more than you are supposed to by the delay of these declaration.

Document no.3 (Yellow paper back)

YOU CAN DONATE YOUR ALLOWANCE.

How you can donate and how it will be used:
-You can donate the allowance only by handing in an application
-The city of Yokohama directly receive the donation (the amount you named).
-Your donation will be used to help children and young people in Yokohama.

The Process of Donation

1) The recipient Call the city office
2) The city send an application form to the recipient
3) The recipient turns in the application
4) The city receives the donation
* You can donate the part of your allowance (the rest will be transferred to your bank account).

If you wish to donate:
1) Please call 045-641-8411 (FAX 045-641-8412) and the officer will explain the detail.
2) Please download the application form from the website of Yokohama city and send it to the address below (if you can't download it, they will send it to you by mail).

-You can receive tax deduction of the donation of allowance (the city of Yokohama issues a certificate to declare the tax deduction).
-The donation cannot be returned after the city receives it, but you can withdraw the application before the payment of the allowance.
-The city may contact again for those who turn in the application to donate to confirm the detail.

Address: 231-8771 Yokohama City, The Department of Children and Young People, Children and Family Division/Allowance Payment
TEL:045-641-8411 / FAX:045-641-8412
Email: kd-teate@city.yokohama.jp

[BENEFIT]TOYSRUS Membership (point) Card

There are several Toysrus in Yokohama (store list)

And Toysrus Japan has point (membership) card system. We found that they have the application form in English. The membership is free of charge and we can get 1 point per 200 yen (of purchase). They have also "bonus points" or "double ~ ten times points promotion" systems from time to time. And when the point reaches 500, we can use it as 500 yen at Toysrus.

There are also sales only for card holders (for example, a toy was ¥999 for card holders while it was ¥1,399 for non-holders the other day).

You can ask for the card at the cash desk.


This is the application form in Japanese.


This is the one in English and the card.


Once you become the member, you can check your points or change your account information online. Here is the Toysrus member page guide (opens a new window) .