Mayor Katsuaki Uechi of Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, submitted a request to the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Shigeyuki Goto to apply welfare protection to university students who have lived alone and are in need of living due to past abuse.The notification from the director of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (at that time) 58 years ago, which stated that welfare was not applied to university students, was abolished because it was out of date, and it is appealing to university students for flexible operation.
According to Yokosuka City, the mayor of Uechi has no choice but to drop out of the university due to poor living conditions among university students who have been living alone after going to university due to past child abuse damage. He argued that the livelihood protection system should be utilized as a safety net for children and young people in adversity.
However, as a general rule, university students cannot receive welfare protection in the notification of the director of the Social Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1963, and this policy has been maintained since then.Maito Nakamura, the representative director of the abuse victim support site "Abuse Dot Net", visited by Mayor Uechi, said that it was difficult to continue working part-time due to the flashback of child abuse, and he consulted on welfare, but because of university students. It is said that it has been refused.
Mayor Uechi is requesting that the livelihood protection system be flexibly operated and that a support system for university students who are in need of living be established without sticking to the notification 58 years ago.
