Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno will carry out a wide-ranging review of the financial resources for realizing Prime Minister Kishida's "countermeasures against the declining birthrate," including spending from social insurance and reconsidering how the national and local governments should bear the burden. showed an idea.
In order to realize the "countermeasures against the declining birthrate on a different level" advocated by Prime Minister Kishida, the government will
▽ expand economic support centered on child allowances,
▽ enhance early childhood education and childcare services,
▽ strengthen the childcare leave system. We will continue to consider
the promotion of work style reforms, including ,
and plan to put together a draft for concrete measures by the end of March.
At a press conference after the cabinet meeting, Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno said about the financial sources of such concrete measures, "While devising various ideas such as the relationship with various social insurances, the roles of the national and local governments, and the way support for higher education should be, society as a whole I will think about how to support it stably in the future, ”he said, and indicated his intention to proceed with a wide range of considerations, including reviewing expenditures from social insurance and how the national and local governments should bear the burden.