Hyogo Akashi School loan loan capped at 1 million yen New corona impact May 19 17:42

Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture, announced that it will raise the upper limit of the school loan system, which started to support economically severe students due to the new coronavirus, from 600,000 yen to 1 million yen.

Starting this month, Akashi City started its own support system to lend interest-free students up to 500,000 yen to students in the city who are having difficulty paying tuition fees. "A lot of consultations were received.

Therefore, Akashi City raised the price to 600,000 yen on the 12th of last week, but some students of the Faculty of Nursing wanted to add it, and decided to raise it to 1 million yen.

In addition, although it was said that the loan would be due until the end of next month, the policy is to lend the tuition fee for the first half of this year, even if the deadline is July or later.

The government decided to provide a maximum of 200,000 yen per person for support measures for students whose income decreased, but Mayor Izumi Fusaho said in a press conference, "The national support measures are only living expenses. I can't cover it, and I can't cover my tuition. There are so many needs that I received more than 100 consultations in the last three weeks, and I want to support as much as possible. "

Akashi City will submit a related supplementary budget to the city council, which will be held next month, in order to secure a project cost of 50 million yen for implementing this support measure.