Video Materials on Depression and a Breakdown of Expenditures for Japanese Living Alone in Relative Poverty

The amount of disability pension benefits (monthly) in US dollars

In the previous article, I explained that since September 1, 2016, the mentally disabled living alone in Japan are hit with the “double whammy.” Their own mental illness (existing difficulty) Relative Poverty (due to cutoff of disability pensions) On September 1, 2016, the disability pension system for the mentally disabled was revised for the worse. Since then, it ...

What Is This Thing Called Relative Poverty? Save the Mentally Disabled Living Alone in Japan From It

The second page of the medical certificate

From the spring of 2017, I began to suffer from poverty. Around that time, my application for disability pension was denied. Since September 1, 2016, the mentally disabled living alone in Japan have fallen into poverty one after another in the same manner. On September 1, 2016, the disability pension system for only the mentally disabled (and ...