It turned out that Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, made a mistake in the office work when collecting long-term care insurance premiums for next month, and could not collect about 540 million yen in total for long-term care insurance premiums for 50,000 people.
The city will send a payment slip to the target person and have it paid directly at a bank or the like.
This was revealed at a press conference by Mayor Shinozaki of Ube City on the 19th.
According to this, among the elderly aged 65 and over whose long-term care insurance premiums are deducted from their pensions, 49,469 people who have changed their income in the previous year, etc., have a total of 53321 long-term care insurance premiums for next month. It means that we can no longer collect more than 10,000 yen.
The cause was that the city official did not notice that the amount column was zero when he referred to the incorrect data when sending the amount of long-term care insurance premiums for next month to the Japan Pension Service. is.
The city will send a payment slip to the target person and have it paid directly at a bank or convenience store.
Mayor Shinozaki of Ube City apologized, "We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to the citizens and the loss of trust in the city."
On top of that, he said that he was concerned about refund fraud that took advantage of this mistake, and said, "City officials will not prompt you for refund procedures by direct mail, so please be careful not to give out personal information." I am.