There are 4 kinds of pension in Japan. The first kind of pension is the government pension plan for people who do business on their own.
The inspector of pensions found 8 thousands people on pension for one billion and one hundred twenty million yen have not been paid at the end of March 2007. They found that over 50% of people have not applied for a pension. They did not know they were able to pension.
Why they did not know that they were able to get as a pension because the pension system is complicated in Japan. When we become 20 years old, we have to be pension plan's member. This is obligation for people in Japan. This for example, The people work in a company, the people join the employee's pension plan. And then the people quit the company and do business on their own, the pension change to the government pension plan.
This is a problem. Depend on what kind of pension plan but people in Japan usually have to pay pension plan for over 20 years. If we do not , we can not apply the application qualification or even if we do it, we will get little money. So the people who had paid the pension for short time did not know they are able to get the pensions.
However this article is strange. The people who retired usually check their pensions can get or not. There is another reason.
Pension is managed by the Social Insurance Agency, but the Social Insurance Agency has many problem. They don't have some people's address or other information. Some reason are the input mistake by the time of computer introduction or when women marry, they change their family name so they were not input their name accurately.
And the pensions money sometimes disappear because the officer who works in the social Insurance Agency has worked criminal such as deception and embezzling. There are some reason why people can not get a pension. The biggest cause is that the Social Insurance Agency had neglected various for a long time.
Government promised recovery work as people but in fact it is impossible.
This problem is just the tip of iceberg.
