The Ministry of Finance has announced that the budget request of each ministry and agency for the formulation of the national budget for the next fiscal year has reached a record high of 111,655.9 billion yen due to the increase in social security costs and government bond costs. bottom.

According to the Ministry of Finance's announcement, as a result of totaling the budget requests submitted by each ministry and agency by the end of last month, the total amount of the general account was 111,655.9 billion yen, the highest ever for the fourth consecutive year.



Of these, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare requested 33,945 billion yen due to an increase in social security costs due to the aging of the population.



“Government bond costs” for redemption and interest payments of government bonds also increased by more than 6 trillion yen from the initial budget for this fiscal year to 30,236.2 billion yen.



At this stage, there are many requests for the new coronavirus countermeasure business that do not specify the amount, and there is a possibility that expenditures will increase further.



As the country's financial management became more difficult due to the corona disaster, we prepared three supplementary budgets last year, but more than 30 trillion yen of them was carried over to this year without being used.



For this reason, in future organization work, how to improve efficient budget allocation and policy effectiveness will be issues.

At the press conference, Deputy Minister of Finance Wataru Ito said, "I would like to do my utmost to complete the budgeting without delay in any situation, without having to deal with the new corona." I did.