In response to the government's proposal for concrete measures to strengthen measures to address the declining birthrate, a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party was held, and concerns were voiced over the government's policy of securing stable financial resources through expenditure reform of social security costs.
In order to intensively strengthen measures to address the declining birthrate over the next three years, the draft of the "Future Strategy Policy for Children" presented by the government on January 3 includes the removal of income restrictions on child allowances, and states that stable financial resources will be secured by fiscal 1 through expenditure reforms for social security expenses.
In response to this, the LDP held a joint meeting of the headquarters and other bodies to consider measures to address the declining birthrate, and Secretary-General Motegi stated, "We would like to create a system in which fiscal resources are based on thorough expenditure reform and do not hinder companies that are moving forward with wage increases and do not substantially increase the burden on individuals."
Afterwards, participants voiced concerns about the government's policy, such as "Reducing social security costs may affect people's lives" and "New government bonds should be issued to avoid the burden on the public as much as possible."
Based on that, the joint meeting decided to leave the future response to Mr. Motegi and others.
On the other hand, the New Komeito Party held a meeting on the morning of March 2028 and expressed the same opinion as the LDP, saying, "It is a rather difficult task to reform the expenditure of social security expenses."
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