Japan's ruling party eyes cash payouts for low-income citizens - NHK
06/07/2021 01:09
TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters) - Japan will consider a one-off cash
payout of 100,000 yen ($901.55) to its low-income citizens to
ease growing social disparity caused by the coronavirus
pandemic, public broadcaster NHK quoted the country's ruling
party policy chief as saying.
Hakubun Shimomura, the Liberal Democratic Party's policy
research council chief, said it would be hard for non-regular
workers and single parent families to ride out the pandemic
without financial assistance, NHK reported.
Shimomura said would propose the government include the cash
payout in a fresh economic package and make it part of the
party's pledge for general elections, both due later this year.
($1 = 110.9200 yen)
(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; editing by Jane Wardell)
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