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 ...

Disability Pension Should Have Been Provided to the Mentally Disabled Living Alone. As an Alternative, we've Started a Donation Campaign

hopeless-depression

The mentally disabled living alone can hardly reintegrate into society without public financial support. This was the heartfelt scream I wrote in the article: In Japan, It Has Become Extremely Difficult for Only the Mentally Disabled to Receive Disability Pension Benefits Since September 2016. Almost three years have passed since this article was published. And now the ...