The Children and Family Affairs Agency has decided to issue approximately 700,000 discount coupons for babysitting services to corporate employees in FY2020, 1.8 times more than the previous year.
Babysitter discount coupons are a support project run by the Children and Family Affairs Agency through the National Childcare Service Association, a public interest incorporated association, and discount coupons are issued when companies that are eligible for the Employees' Pension apply to the association. will be done.
In FY2020, the issuance to companies was suspended after reaching the originally planned number of 390,000 in October, but was resumed in response to concerns from households with children.
In response to this, the Children and Family Affairs Agency decided to set a maximum distribution limit of approximately 700,000 tickets for FY2026, which is 1.8 times more than the previous year, and included the necessary costs in the budget bill.
However, as of the end of December last year
, of the approximately 480,000 tickets issued
, the number that had actually been used was approximately 330,000
, and approximately 150,000 remained unused with companies.
For this reason, the Children and Family Affairs Agency is considering halving the number of discount coupons that companies can apply for at one time in 2026 compared to the upper limit that was in effect until October last year.