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Welfare Services
A number of welfare services are provided by administrative organs and agencies. Foreign nationals are eligible from some of these services.
| Clientele |
Sample Services |
| Elderly Persons |
Home help visits and home-visit care for those requiring nursing care at home; daycare centers; arrangements for special nursing homes for the elderly
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| Disabled Persons |
Medical cost assistance; assistance and allowance distribution as stipulated in the disabled persons’ handbook targeted at physically, cognitively, and mentally disabled persons
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| Children |
Distribution of childrearing allowances for single mothers; extended daycare and weekend/holiday daycare; childrearing counseling
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For more details, town and village residents should contact their Regional Development
Bureau’s Health, Welfare and Environment Division, and city residents their city
welfare office.
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