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“Welfare benefits will be slashed by ¥74 billion over a three-year period starting from fiscal 2013, after a government panel found that some people are making more on the dole than the average low-income person who is not spends on living costs, it was learned Sunday.  The decision to lower standard benefit payments by 6.5 percent was made by welfare minister Norihisa Tamura and Finance Minister Taro Aso. The reduction will hit in August.”

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/28/national/welfare-payments-to-be-slashed-¥74-billion-to-root-out-the-comfortably-poor/