The House of Representatives election celebrated its first weekend after the announcement.
Since child poverty has become an issue due to the influence of the new coronavirus, each party has announced child-rearing support and expansion of child-related policies in the election campaign.
The House of Representatives election announced on the 19th of this month marks the first weekend, and the leaders and executives of each party will vote on the 31st, including entering the constituencies where close battles are expected and giving street speeches. The election campaign is continuing.
Since the number of children born in the last year was about 840,000, which was the lowest since we started collecting statistics, and child poverty has become an issue due to the influence of the new corona, each party has been supporting child-rearing. We are planning to expand our policies regarding children.
In addition to making early childhood education and childcare free of charge, the LDP aims to secure financial resources to reduce waiting-list children, expand childcare for sick children, and strengthen child allowances, as well as financial support that makes it easy for babysitters to use. Is supposed to do.
The Constitutional Democratic Party has said that it will lift the income restrictions on children's allowances, expand the coverage, and realize free childbirth costs, and will create a "Ministry of Children" to double the national budget for children. doing.
The Komeito has created an environment to support household chores and childcare in order to prevent "postpartum depression" by raising a "future support benefit" that uniformly supports children up to the age of 18 up to 100,000 yen and an increase in the lump-sum payment for childbirth and childcare. And then.
The Communist Party has decided to reduce tuition fees for universities and other institutions by half, eliminate admission fees, expand the scope of children's allowances, and make all early childhood education and childcare, as well as school lunches free of charge.
The Nippon Ishin no Kai stipulates that education should be completely free of charge, obliges the government to take budgetary measures, and minimizes the economic burden of pregnancy and childbirth by increasing the lump-sum payment for childbirth and childbirth.
The Democratic Party for the People will issue "educational government bonds" to double the education budget, expand the child allowance, and pay 15,000 yen per person per month until the age of 18 regardless of the parents' annual income.
The Reiwa Shinsengumi has doubled the amount of children's allowance paid, expanded the scope of payment, and exempted the refund of scholarships.
In principle, the Social Democratic Party makes scholarships a benefit type, and some scholarships that have already been repaid are exempted.
"In violation of Article 72 of the Party Lawyers Act, which is being tried with NHK," states that only the first child will be paid 10 million yen to the mother who gave birth.