On May 31, 8:30 am, chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 29, 1:55 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 28, 8:59 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On May 27, 7:58 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Tokyo-to, Ota-ku ... JPY480,000 ... in cash.  One time.  And they also
> > > > reimbursed the JPY400,000 for the basic hospital stay fee upon
> > > > presentation of the checkout paperwork.  Of course, the family Human
> > > > Being _did_ handle the paperwork.  The Animal just followed along behind
> > > > and pushed the stroller.
>
> > > I didn't know it was so profitable; my BYJW would have probalby gone
> > > home to have the baby had she known about this; that'd more than cover
> > > airfare.
>
> > > John W.
>
> > I'm so (blissfully) ignorant about this, that I don't even know if it
> > varies from prefecture to prefecture (or city!?).
>
> Even varies ward to ward.

Same thing?

> Tuesday seems to be the day they start handing out the child
> allowances.  Going to
> have to start saving it up for that school the wee one will be
> starting soon.  Might just cover
> the school uniform socks, if I am lucky.

Child allowances aren't connected in any way (that I'm aware of) to
paid parental leave though. A separate issue. As I'm not planning to
breed and can't be arsed finding out, I don't know if child allowances
are means tested (suspect not, though they should be).