900,000 corrected pension records remained unprocessed as of December

Tuesday 20th January, 06:14 AM JST

TOKYO —

About 900,000 pension records that have been corrected by pensioners remained unprocessed at the Social Insurance Agency and related offices across Japan as of the end of December, agency officials said Monday.

About 118,000 cases were left unprocessed at the agency’s local offices and nearly 800,000 had not been dealt with a center in Tokyo where final payment amounts are decided, causing delays in the payment of additional pension amounts resulting from approved corrections. According to the agency, it takes an average of two months for the local offices to send the necessary documents to the center, which then requires about seven months on average to process the cases before finalization of the payment amounts.

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shouganaika at 10:55 AM JST - 20th January

I agree with finediner.
medievaltimes at 10:58 AM JST - 20th January

clearly shows how undemocratic the country is and how 'Gaman' and 'Shogenai' dictated the people are

Very well said.
kakikaki at 11:01 AM JST - 20th January

A reason to pay your pension in another country . . in 30 years I will get like 500Yen pension a month if the trend goes further in that direction.
tmarie at 11:33 AM JST - 20th January

Of course the government doesn't want to pay!! Thing is though the Japanese public is doing NOTHING to make sure that they do - and hasn't kicked out the government who has caused such a mess. Therefore, they are letting these folks get away with it all. Shoganai....
European1 at 11:41 AM JST - 20th January

The apathetic populace have only themselves to blame. In any other country there would be mass anti-government riots, forced elections, the abolition of the current administration. The fact that they are still in power after such a debacle clearly shows how undemocratic the country is and how 'Gaman' and 'Shogenai' dictated the people are.

Very, Very True. Bear in mind that "robots" once programmed cannot reset themselves.
European1 at 11:43 AM JST - 20th January

I think that Government does not want to pay all additional amounts to thousands of people, because the SIA of pension organization would be bankrupted if government paid trillions trillions of money.

but they have trillions to give away as stimulus package. Stupid 12,000yen
kwatt at 12:28 PM JST - 20th January

Pensions and additional amounts are much larger than stimulus package 2 trillion yen. Population of retired poeple are increasing rapidly every year.
Disillusioned at 12:37 PM JST - 20th January

Ha! I just got offered a new job and they asked me to pay into the national pension plan. They couldn't understand why I started laughing histerically and told them to shove it! - This is a scandalous fraud on a scale rarely, if ever seen in the western world. Only in Japan would the general public be more concerned about replacing the current prime minister than chasing up the scadalous a/holes that have ripped the country off for trillions of yen in public revenue.
kwatt at 01:04 PM JST - 20th January

Japanese average poeple do not want Mr Aso to be prime minister any more but people can not select MP from general election. Upper and Lower houses stupid lawmakers can do in the Diet. Only thing people can do is to have to vote for really right persons as good lawmaker.
tmarie at 02:06 PM JST - 20th January

Kwatt, are you Japanese?? You have a vcery much "shoganai" attitude. The japanese public can riot, have demonstrations and demand an election and a new PM be put into power. However, they have done.... nothing.
kwatt at 02:18 PM JST - 20th January

My post is just message. I do not want my message to start any public riot. I've been here for many years. That's all.
ptolemy at 04:13 PM JST - 20th January

Mr. Aso seems really concerned about this, nantonaku.
GW at 10:16 PM JST - 20th January

I remember when I first washed up here early 90s in the rags were stories about all these extravegant "welfare centres" all over the place paid for with nenkin, big building full of crap nobody needs, so construction companies made off like bandits, other companies staffed the placed, sold the furniture etc etc all paid for by nenkin, every hick town wanted one bigger/better than the next hick down, no ones used/uses the places, they ran huge deficits for ages.

And last few years its the whole records debacle.......

I bet the whole nenkin thing is already bust right now but the govt wont admit it.　There is no way there is much if any money for pensions even as I type.

I find that whatever the govt admits about problems the truth is always 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than what they say, so there you heard it form me its BUST, has been for a while now....

The system needs to scrapped & a system set up where people/companies deposit funds directly into an account where people have a passbook & can go to an atm & check their balance, thats the only feasible route for the future here. Heck if they did that then I wud start paying
bobbafett at 01:01 AM JST - 21st January

Ha! I just got offered a new job and they asked me to pay into the national pension plan. They couldn't understand why I started laughing histerically and told them to shove it!

I hope you did not get the job. You cannot spell and you want to break the law.
kakikaki at 12:01 PM JST - 21st January

I pay 30000Yen monthly in to my pesnion systhem back home in europe(won't tell the country), and despite not worknig there and living there, I will earn the minimum pay of 2045 wich is allready now 1500EurosNET. So right now I am paying the double, which will make at the end a comfortabel 2500Euro+ (if taking it in 2009). So yeah I pay a lot of money , but the gov. needs founds from somewhere. Japanese business from the small stinky farmer to Toyota, are using that money for hopeless investements and services, rather then filling the health and pension books for a better future . . . hopeless