The government has compiled a plan to support mainly university students who are financially suffering from the effects of the new coronavirus. About 400,000 students are expected to receive a 100,000 yen or 200,000 yen grant under the scheme.
The proposal was made on Thursday by the government at a meeting between the policy research council chairmen of the Liberal Democratic Party's Fumio Kishida and Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's Seiji Osaka.
According to Osaka, the government proposed the plan in which students in households exempt from residential tax will be provided 200,000 yen and other students 100,000 yen. In addition to university, graduate school, junior college and vocational school students, foreign students attending Japanese language schools will also be eligible for the scheme.
The government will continue to study conditions for the payment, such as the amount of revenue lost from part-time jobs.
Opposition parties, including the CDPJ, have already submitted to the House of Representatives a bill calling for the payment of up to 200,000 yen in cash. As some members of the opposition parties have called for a uniform payment of 200,000, yen the ruling and opposition parties are expected to discuss the issue further.
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