Kindly asking for some help in navigating through the various kind of benefits that my family is entitled to in case of childbirth.
Me and my wife are both working shakaijins who are enrolled into shakai-hoken. Our child was born in Aiiku hospital a few months ago. These are the benefits that we have received so far:
* 500,000 lump sum from my wife’s shakai hoken (at least I think it’s coming from hoken), which Aiiku took care of. Essentially, our bill was 500,000 yen less for the medical care cost.
* 5000 yen a month support from the city.
* We also just signed up for zero-ichi-hachi.
* 50,000 yen worth of food coupons from the city.
* 100,000 yen worth of coupons for baby goods from the city (via “Akachan First”).
* Taxi coupons.
Both me and my wife are also receiving the maternity/parental leave care, which is around 60% of our salary.
And we are also in the process of doing the kakutei-shinkoku thing for claiming the medical expenses.
Are there any other benefits that we are unaware of?
(We live in Tokyo if it matters.)
by vadibur