In order to reduce the burden on households facing high prices, such as the simultaneous increase in food prices, Kawasaki City has decided to submit a supplementary budget proposal to the city council, which is currently in session, to provide cash benefits of 10,000 yen per child. I decided.
This was decided at the Kawasaki City New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Control Headquarters meeting held on the 4th, and is to provide cash to child-rearing households.
Approximately 200,000 children in the city from 0 years old to graduating from junior high school will be paid 10,000 yen per child without setting an income limit.
The financial resources are to utilize the government's temporary grants for new coronavirus infectious disease countermeasures.
Kawasaki City will submit a supplementary budget proposal to the regular city council, which is currently in session, and if it is approved, the benefits will be paid within this fiscal year.
Norihiko Fukuda, Mayor of Kawasaki City, said, ``The government will provide 50,000 yen to tax-exempt households, but many of them are elderly people. 10,000 yen is not enough, but I want to support it somehow."