At a meeting of the City Assembly\u2019s Special Budget Committee, Fukuoka City revealed that the total amount of unpaid certified nursery school fees had reached more than \u00a5580 million by the end of fiscal 2012. This amount has grown 250% since 1992, the earliest year for which records still exist. Fukuoka ranks second worst in Japan in the number of children waiting to enroll in nursery schools, and City Hall recently agreed to increase nursery school capacities at a quicker pace to deal with this issue; however, some fear that increasing capacities could lead to more unpaid fees. Fees are based on income level and range from \u00a50, for people on welfare or with no taxable income, to \u00a583,200 per month. Single-year unpaid fees for fiscal 2012 totaled \u00a596.98 million, and while improvements were being made in collections, efforts to collect unpaid fees carried over from previous years have not been making much headway. The biggest reason for nonpayment is seen to be \u201cthe declining income of parents due to unemployment and other factors associated with the recession.\u201d Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 10\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At a meeting of the City Assembly\u2019s Special Budget Committee, Fukuoka City revealed that the total amount of unpaid certified nursery school fees had reached more than \u00a5580 million by the end of fiscal 2012. This amount has grown 250% since 1992, the earliest year for which records still exist. Fukuoka ranks second worst in Japan in the number of children waiting to enroll in nursery schools, and City Hall recently agreed to increase nursery school capacities at a quicker pace to deal with this issue; however, some fear that increasing capacities could lead to more unpaid fees. Fees are based on income level and range from \u00a50, for people on welfare or with no taxable income, to \u00a583,200 per month. Single-year unpaid fees for fiscal 2012 totaled \u00a596.98 million, and while improvements were being made in collections, efforts to collect unpaid fees carried over from previous years have not been making much headway. The biggest reason for nonpayment is seen to be \u201cthe declining income of parents due to unemployment and other factors associated with the recession.\u201d Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 10\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81546","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}