Going through and cancelling all paid subscriptions that are not 100% necessary for work. Just cancelled my Japan Times subscription. This will hurt my posting here but need that ¥3000 a month. Sadly, I have already cut my app subscriptions to the bare bones, no more to save there. Now, to the few paid substack subscriptions I have.
At one point, after showing how little I was paid last year and how little I receive each month and telling him I simply have no money and he keep replying “You must pay nenkin.” I asked “With what? Should I rob a bank?”. I did not say “No, don’t do that.” In fact, he made no response at all.
What I was told today is right in line with what I had heard from friends, coworkers and read in the news for the national health care system. Nenkin was not yet a concern as it was not in the news except for the pilfering by nenkin employees and abysmally poor record keeping, which I believe was intentional to hid the theft from the pension system, by the city employees working in the pension department. No one I knew made any statement about nenkin, no one had yet had any issues over it. So, all I shared with you earlier was over the national health care system payments. However, as I stated earlier, it’s all the same shit, just different piles, I expected no different with the pension office. Sadly, my expectations were not disappointed. I have no doubt, that if I walked in with just an inquiry such as yours but tailored to nenkin that the very same person I spoke with today would have replied in almost the exact way as whoever you spoke with did.
THAT is one of the grating points, they can, but do not necessarily do, refuse benefits based sole upon the fact that I am not Japanese. However, you must pay into the system a full 20 years before you can make a claim on it, I am 54. I cannot receive any portion of this money back. And, it is means tested against the households earnings and assets. My wife earns too much for me to draw nenkin even if I had been paying into it for the ful 20 years.
Even in divorce, I am a financial drain on my family. Nippon Yokoso (Welcome to Japan).
"You can't fight CityHall“ which is why it is not unheard of for Japanese to get farm or construction equipment and knock down their city halls. I understand the temptation.
Quite some time ago I saw and saved a one panel comic. There is a little boy speaking to his father he is reading the newspaper and has turned it back so that he can speak with his son. The son says, “Dad, I want to work in organized crime.” His dad replies, “Public or private?”. Laughed when I first saw it. Have since learned it ain’t no joke.
The visit to the first office was almost exactly as I prophesied it would be. Old, thin, gray haired man wearing a mask and behind a plastic shield. However, his voice would probably be audible if not for the mask and shield. He was actually personable.
The automaton at the second office was a young unmasked man who was protected by a more substantial plastic shield that the first office had.
I should have asked what happens in case of death.
Going through and cancelling all paid subscriptions that are not 100% necessary for work. Just cancelled my Japan Times subscription. This will hurt my posting here but need that ¥3000 a month. Sadly, I have already cut my app subscriptions to the bare bones, no more to save there. Now, to the few paid substack subscriptions I have.
At one point, after showing how little I was paid last year and how little I receive each month and telling him I simply have no money and he keep replying “You must pay nenkin.” I asked “With what? Should I rob a bank?”. I did not say “No, don’t do that.” In fact, he made no response at all.
Very Kafkaesque. My wishes for some good luck to come your way.
Well, the DMSO fixing my knee when surgery seemed the only way to go is good luck. Thanks. I know what you mean and thanks again.
Thanks for the post
What I was told today is right in line with what I had heard from friends, coworkers and read in the news for the national health care system. Nenkin was not yet a concern as it was not in the news except for the pilfering by nenkin employees and abysmally poor record keeping, which I believe was intentional to hid the theft from the pension system, by the city employees working in the pension department. No one I knew made any statement about nenkin, no one had yet had any issues over it. So, all I shared with you earlier was over the national health care system payments. However, as I stated earlier, it’s all the same shit, just different piles, I expected no different with the pension office. Sadly, my expectations were not disappointed. I have no doubt, that if I walked in with just an inquiry such as yours but tailored to nenkin that the very same person I spoke with today would have replied in almost the exact way as whoever you spoke with did.
Same shit, different pile.
The expression, "You can't fight CityHall" comes to mind.
As a resident rather tha a full citizen, is there any way to officially renounce any future claim of benefits, in order to avoid this burden?
Good luck, sir. My heart goes out to you and your family.
THAT is one of the grating points, they can, but do not necessarily do, refuse benefits based sole upon the fact that I am not Japanese. However, you must pay into the system a full 20 years before you can make a claim on it, I am 54. I cannot receive any portion of this money back. And, it is means tested against the households earnings and assets. My wife earns too much for me to draw nenkin even if I had been paying into it for the ful 20 years.
Even in divorce, I am a financial drain on my family. Nippon Yokoso (Welcome to Japan).
"You can't fight CityHall“ which is why it is not unheard of for Japanese to get farm or construction equipment and knock down their city halls. I understand the temptation.
Sounds like the yakuza.
Quite some time ago I saw and saved a one panel comic. There is a little boy speaking to his father he is reading the newspaper and has turned it back so that he can speak with his son. The son says, “Dad, I want to work in organized crime.” His dad replies, “Public or private?”. Laughed when I first saw it. Have since learned it ain’t no joke.
By the way, was our organized crime figure at the pension office wearing a mask? I would say by his inability to think, he most likely was.
The visit to the first office was almost exactly as I prophesied it would be. Old, thin, gray haired man wearing a mask and behind a plastic shield. However, his voice would probably be audible if not for the mask and shield. He was actually personable.
The automaton at the second office was a young unmasked man who was protected by a more substantial plastic shield that the first office had.
OK. I was half wrong. But I can admit when I am wrong, unlike anyone working in the Japanese Health Agency.