My wife and I arrived in September, I’m on a student visa, she is working holiday. We went to the ward office together, registered our address and got the health insurance sorted etc.
I had a bill arrive in the post today for about 2800円 so I took it to 7/11. The guy scanned the barcode and said the deadline has already passed.
So two questions:
1) The bill has just my name, but is it actually for me AND my wife? (She did not receive a bill).
2) How the feck do I pay it?
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Your wife will/should receive a seperate one. Definitely wont be for both of you.
If it just arrived, it shouldn’t be expired. For NHI you have to pay it at the post office, or the city hall.
When I signed up for NHI (on private now) they gave me a whole coupon book of bills – so I could go pay the whole year at once.
What is the deadline written on the bill? It should say on it. You can pay it at a convenience store usually. If there is an issue you might have to go to the ward office though.
When you signed up did you sign up as separate households or under your name? The bills would be together under your name if you are under one setainushi (世帯主). You can check this if your name is also on her health insurance card.
if she earning below 10man yen she is qualified to be under your healthinsurance
you can pay it at cityhall (if its past due)
National Health Insurance should be paid by household, not by person. So you can pay yours and hers in one bill.
But if she’s working, she might be enrolled to the health insurance of her workplace. In that case, she must pay it by herself. It’s pretty complicated. So I can’t say if she must be enrolled to the health insurance of workplace.
If the bill is already expired, just go to city hall again and ask them to issue a new bill.