Pensioners to be paid price boosts over unpaid benefits

Pensioners to be paid price boosts over unpaid benefits

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (front) bows in apology during a plenary session of the House of Councillors on April 24 after the upper chamber approved a bill designed to tack price boosts on benefits to pensioners whose pension receipts were in arrears due to the pension fiasco involving millions of accounts that long remained unidentified. (Kyodo)

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