The health ministry intends to require family members living with elderly people who receive pension benefits to report to the Japan Pension Service if the elderly person goes missing, as part of efforts to prevent relatives from fraudulently collecting the benefits, sources said.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to submit bills to revise related laws, including the National Pension Law, to the Diet in March at the earliest.
Currently, the ministry obliges family members living with pensioners to report the deaths of elderly people. (Yomiuri)
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