Regarding the child allowance, which has become one of the points of contention in the Diet, both the ruling and opposition parties are calling for the abolishment of income restrictions, etc., and the government plans to seriously consider expanding it. .
A child allowance of up to 15,000 yen per child is provided to households with children up to junior high school age. .
Both the ruling and opposition parties have called for the abolishment of income restrictions in order to strengthen countermeasures against the declining birthrate, and opinions that the payment should be expanded to include high school students. I would like you to quickly declare that you will be paid up to the age of 18 without income restrictions."
Regarding this situation, Prime Minister Kishida said at the House of Representatives Budget Committee on the 31st, "There are increasing calls for various economic support regarding child and child-rearing policies. We want to make decisions," he said.
The government intends to come up with concrete measures by the end of March in order to realize "countermeasures for the declining birthrate on a different level," and plans to begin full-scale consideration of concrete measures to expand child allowances, taking into consideration the opinions of the ruling and opposition parties. am.