2. Data description
2-1 Data source used to compile the Financial Statistics of Social Security
Name 1

Organization
House ofRepresentatives
House of Councilors
National Diet Library
Court
National Personnel
Authority
Cabinet Office

Breakdown list if the program has several components

Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.
Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.
Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.
Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.
Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.
Public Health

Accident Compensation for Government Employees inSpecial Service
Accident Compensation for Government Employees inSpecial Service
Accident Compensation for Government Employees inSpecial Service
Accident Compensation for Government Employees inSpecial Service
Government Employees' Accident Compensation(General staff)
Local revitalization promotion expenses in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic
Disaster policy expenses, Reconstruction policy
expenses related to regional revitalization etc.,
Okinawa policy expenses, Expenses for supportingchildren and child rearing, Temporary special benefits
for child-rearing households, Expenses for promoting
gender-equal society

Social Welfare

National Police Agency
Children and Family
AgencyMinistry of Internal
Affairs andCommunications

Other Schemes
Disaster Victims Livelihood Recovery
Support System
Other Schemes
Benefit System for Crime Victims
Child Allowance (Jido Teate)
Social Welfare

Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association

Expenses for childcare measures , Expenses forchildcare measures , Expenses for maternal and childpublic health service , Expenses for measures forfatherless and other families , Expenses for supportingchildren and child rearing , Expenses for public
assistance measures etc. , Child welfare facility
maintenance fee , Expenses for projects on social
security related to the recovery from the great east
Japan earthquake , Expenses for policies on social
security related to the recovery from the great east
Japan earthquake , National rehabilitation facility
common expenses , National rehabilitation facility fee ,Operating expenses fornational children's selfreliance support facility , Expenses for infectious
disease control
Local Government Employee Mutual Aid, Mutual aid
associations for members of regional assemblies

Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation

Local Government Employees Accident
Compensation, Accident Compensation for Volunteer
Firefighters

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation,
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation,
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation,
NTT Communications Corporation

National Public Employees' Pensions
Local Public Employees' Pensions
Aid for War Victimsi

Pensions to surviving families and ex-servicemen,
Administrative costs

Organization

Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Ministry of FinanceJapan

Name 1

Breakdown list if the program has several components

Other Schemes
Local government expenditureexclusively financed by local revenue
Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.
Public HealthNational and Related Public Service
Mutual Aid Association
Existing Associations, etc.

Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation
Aid for War Victims

Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports,
Science andTechnology

NTT Corporate Pension Fund, Japan Tobacco
Mutual Aid Association, Japan Railway Mutual Aid
Association
Subsidies for Mutual Aid Association Establishedunder Former Ordinances, Subsidies for Federation of
National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid
Association
Japan Tobacco Inc. Corporation
Subsidy bonds issued to the surviving families of thewar Dead, Wounded and sick retired soldiers, and therepatriated after the war, in lieu of cash benefits,
Consolation payments, and grants

Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel
Social Welfare
Other Schemes
Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit
School Expense Assistance Programme
and Early Childhood Education

Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare

Accident Compensation for Government Employeesin Special Service
Consular policy expenses

Health Insurance Managed by the Japan
Health Insurance Association
Society-managed Health Insurance
National Health Insurance (Including
Medical Care System for Retired Persons)
Medical Care System for the Elderly in the
Latter Stage of Life
Long-term Care Insurance
Employeesʼ Pension Insurance
Employeesʼ Pension Funds
Coal Mining Pension Fund
National Pension
National Pension Fund
Farmersʼ Pension Fund
Seamen's Insurance
Employment Insurance (Labor Insurance
Special Account)
Workmen's Accident Compensation
Insurance
Public Healthii

Expenses for sports promotion

Expenses for the primary and secondary education etc.
(school expense assistance etc.) , Expenses forrecovery measures from the Great East Japan
earthquake , Subsidies for Private Schools

Expenses for measures ensuring the medical caredelivery system , Okinawa health and sanitation
facility maintenance fee , Expenses for ensuring safety
in medical care , National hospital organization
operating expenses , National cancer center japan
operating expenses , National cerebral andcardiovascular center operating expenses , National
center of neurology and psychiatry operating

Name 1

Organization

Breakdown list if the program has several components
expenses , National center for global health andmedicine operating expenses , National center forchild health and development operating expenses ,National center for geriatrics and gerontology oerating
expenses , Expenses for developing the foundation of
the medical care delivery system , Expenses forpromoting medical technology utilization, Expenses
for okinawa promoting , National hansen's diseasesanatorium common expenses , National hansen'sdisease sanatorium operating expenses , National
hansen's disease sanatorium facility fee , Expenses formeasures controlling and preventing infectious
diseases , Expenses for measures for specific disease
treatment etc. , Expenses for promoting
transplantation therapy , Expenses for measures forthe atomic bomb exposed , Expenses for measures forcommunity health , Health and sanitation facility
maintenance fee , Expenses for health promotion
measures, Expenses for promoting health risk
management , Expenses for policies on social security
related to the recovery from the great east japan
earthquake , Expenses for projects on social security
related to the recovery from the great east japan
earthquake , Expenses for measures for blood
products , Expenses for promoting safety measures for
drugs etc. , Expenses for health and welfare for
persons with disabilities , Expenses on measures tosupport recovery from the great east Japan
earthquake, Expenses for medical insurance benefits ,Expenses for promoting optimizing medical care ,Quarantine station common expenses , Operating
expense for quarantine , Operating expense forquarantine of imported food , Expenses for food safetymeasures , Expenses for suiside prevension measures ,Expenses for medical observations for persons withmental illness who have committed serious harm

Public AssistanceSocial Welfare

Expenses for health and welfare for persons withdisabilities , National center for persons with severe
intellectual disabilities nozominosono operating
expenses , National center for persons with severe
intellectual disabilities nozominosono facility
maintenance fee , Social welfare institution
maintenance fee , National rehabilitation facility
common expenses , National rehabilitation facility
fee , Operating expense for national rehabilitation
facility , Expenses for infectious disease control,
Expenses for promoting daily-life support measures
for the elderly , Expenses for long-term care insurance
system management promotion , Expenses forpreventive measures against child abuse , Expenses forpolicies on social security related to the recovery fromthe great east Japan earthquake, Expenses for public
assistance measures etc. , Miscellaneous expenses forsocial welfare , Welfare and medical service agency
operating expenses , Expenses for measures for
specific disease treatment etc. , Expenses forpromoting safety measures for drugs etc. , Operating
expenses for public pensioniii

Name 1

Organization

Breakdown list if the program has several components

Employment Measures

Special temporary grant for creating immediate
employment opportunities, Employment stabilizationand promotion of elderly persons, etc., Expenses forcarrying out employment placement businesses etc.,
Expenses for vocational skills development andimprovement, Expenses for supporting vocational
skills development for youth and others, Expenses forvocational skills development for persons withdisabilities, Prefectural labor bureau common
expenses, Prefectural labor bureau facility fee

Aid for War Victims

Expenses for support of war-bereaved and families of
the unrepatriated, Expenses for support measures forjapanese remaining in china etc.

Other Schemes
Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse
Drug Reactions

Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries
Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism

Relief System for Sufferers from
Diseases Infected from Biological
Products
Defined Benefit Corporate Pension
Small-and-medium Size Enterprise
Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid
System, etc.
Mutual Aid System for the Retirement
Allowance for the Staff of Social Welfare
Institutions etc.

Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions and Others ,Pension Insurance for Disabled People

Japan Organization for Employment of
the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities
and Job Seekers
Asbestos Health Damage Relief System,
etc.

Benefits for Construction Workers with SpecificAsbestos Health Damage

Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery
Organization, Employeesʼ Mutual Aid
Association
Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation
Employment Measures
Aid for War Victims
Other Schemes
Support for Those Suffering from
Residual Disability from Automobile
Accidents
Housing

Ministry of theEnvironment
Ministry of theEnvironment

Ministry of Defense

Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions, Subsidies for specific hepatitis C virus
infection

Public Health
Other Schemes
Pollution-related Health Damage
Compensation System
Asbestos Health Damage Relief System,
etc.
Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.

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Japan Railway Construction, Transport andTechnology Agency JNR Settlement Administration
Department
Promotion expenses for maritime industry market
development etc.
Aid for free ride for wounded and sick retired soldiersand others

Expenses for housing measures, Great east japan
earthquake reconstruction project expenses
Expenses for nuclear power safety regulation measure

Asbestos Health Damage Relief System
Accident Compensation for Government Employeesin Special Service

Name 1

Organization
Health Insurance
Claims Review &Reimbursement
services

Other Schemes
HealthNational Institute ofPopulation and Social
Security Research 2

Other Schemes
HealthBreakdown list if the program has several components
Administrative cost of public funded healthcare etc

Patient transportation, School health, Vaccine
purchase and distribution costs (equivalent tovaccinations inoculated in 2021)

Notes:
1. This schemelist corresponds to the Tabulation 2 Social Security Benefit Expense Table.
2. Items prepared by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research are estimations based on the Regional tax
allocation system commentary unit cost edited by the Committee to Study Regional Tax Allocation Systems.

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2-2 Social security schemes contained in Social Expenditure 1
Category
Old age

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Old-age comprises all cash expenditures(including lump sum payments) on old-age
pensions. Old age cash benefits provide an
income for persons retired from the labour
market or guarantee incomes when a person
has reached a ʻstandardʼ pensionable age or
fulfilledthenecessary
contributory
requirements. This category also includes
early retirement pensions: pensions paid
before the beneficiary has reached thestandard' pensionable age relevant to theprogramme.

 Long-term Care Insurance: Old age care services,
Old age care prevention services, etc.
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Old age pension,etc.
 Employees' Pension Funds: Pension benefits, etc.
 Coal Mining Pension Fund: Pension benefits, etc.
 National Pension: Old age pension, etc.
 National Pension Fund: Pension benefits, etc.
 Farmers' Pension Fund: Retirement pension
benefits, etc.
 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organization,
Employees' Mutual Aid Association: Retirement
pension, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel: Retirement mutual aid pension, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Retirement benefits, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Retirement benefits,etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Retirement pensions, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Retirement
benefits, etc.
 National Public Employees' Pensions: Pension and
Gratuity benefits
 Local Public Employees' Pensions: Pension and
Gratuity benefits Public Assistance: Long-term care assistance, etc.
 Social Welfare: Promotion of the daily life support
for the elderly, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Public care home forElderly, etc.
 Small-and-medium Size Enterprise Retirement
Allowance Mutual Aid System, etc.: Retirement
benefits, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowancefor the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.:
Retirement benefits

Excluded are programmes concerning early
retirement for labour market reasons which
are classified under "Unemployment." Oldage also includes social expenditure on
services for the elderly people, services suchas day care and rehabilitation services,home-help services and other benefits inkind. It also includes expenditure on theprovision of residential care in an
institution.

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Category
Survivors

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Survivors comprises social expenditure
programmes in the public sphere which
provide the spouse or dependent of a
deceased person with a benefit (either incash or in kind). Allowances andsupplements for dependent children of therecipient of a survivorsʼ benefit are also
recorded here.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association: Funeral service fees, etc.
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Funeralservice fees, etc.
 National Health Insurance: Funeral service fees Medical Care System for the Elderly in the Latter
Stage of Life: Funeral service fees
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Survivorsʼ pension
benefits
 National Pension: Survivors' basic pension, etc.
 Farmers' Pension Fund: Lump sum payments forsurvivors
 Seamen's Insurance: Funeral service fees, etc.
 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organization,
Employees' Mutual Aid Association: Survivorsʼ
pension benefits, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel: Survivors' mutual aid pension, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Funeral service fee, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Survivorsʼ pension benefits, Funeralservice fees, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Survivorsʼ pension
benefits
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Survivors' pensions, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Survivors'
benefits
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation,
etc.: Funeral compensation
 Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation: Funeral compensation
 Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation: Funeral compensation
 Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease
control, etc.
 Public Assistance: Funeral assistance Aid for War Victims: Survivorsʼ pension benefits,
Funeral service fees, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Expenses for therelief of the bereaved families of the war victims
and injured
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Survivorsʼ pension benefits, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases
Infected from Biological Products: Survivorsʼ
pension benefits, Funeral service fee, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowancefor the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.:
Condolence payments, etc.
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Survivors' compensation, etc.
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, etc.:
Special survivor condolence payments, etc.
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Consolation payments for death, etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Survivorsʼ
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Category

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Incapacityrelated benefits

Disability cash benefits comprise of cash
payments on account of complete or partial
inability to participate gainfully in thelabour market due to disability. The
disability may be congenital, or the result ofan accident or illness during the victim's
lifetime.
Spending on Occupational injury anddisease records all cash payments such as
paid sick leave, special allowances anddisability related payments such aspensions, if they are related to prescribe
occupational injuries and diseases. Sickness
cash benefits related to loss of earning
because of the temporary inability to work
due to illness are also recorded. This
excludes paid leave related to sickness or
injury of a dependent child which isrecorded under family cash benefits. All
expenditure regarding the public provisionof health care is recorded under health.
Social expenditure on services for thedisabled people encompasses services suchas day care and rehabilitation services,home-help services and other benefits inkind.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association: Employee sickness
payments
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Employee
sickness payments, etc.
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Disability pension
benefits, etc.
 National Pension: Disability basic pension, etc.
 Seamen's Insurance: Disability pension benefits,etc.
 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organization,
Employees' Mutual Aid Association: Disability
pension benefits, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel: Disability mutual aid pension benefits,etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Disability pension benefits, Survivorsʼ pension
benefits, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Disability pension benefits, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Disability pension
benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Disability pension benefits, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Disability
pension benefits, etc.
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation,
etc.: Disability pension benefits, Survivorsʼ
pension benefits, Home help service, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation: Disability pension benefits,
Survivorsʼ pension benefits, Rehabilitation, etc.
 Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation: Disability pension benefits,
Survivorsʼ pension benefits, etc.
 Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease
control, Expenses for measures for the atomic
bomb exposed, etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare
for persons with disabilities, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Medical care benefits, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Public facility forpeople with disabilities, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Disability pension, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases
Infected from Biological Products: Medical
allowance, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowancefor the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.:
Disability pension benefits, etc.
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Disability benefits, Rehabilitation, etc.
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, etc.:
Medical care benefits Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Consolation payments for disability, etc.
 Support for Those Suffering from Residual
Disability from Automobile Accidents: Careexpenses, etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Disability
benefits, etc.

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CategoryHealthOECD Definition

Examples in Japan

This category includes benefits in kind for
medical care spent for treatment and does
not include sickness and injury allowance.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association: Medical benefits etc.,
Administrative costs, etc.
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Medical
benefits etc., Administrative costs, etc.
 National Health Insurance: Medical benefits etc.,
Administrative costs, etc.
 Medical Care System for the Elderly in the Latter
Stage of Life: Medical benefit, Administrative
costs, etc.
 Long-term Care Insurance: Old age care services,
Old age care prevention services, Administrativecosts Seamenʼs Insurance: Medical benefits etc.,
Administrative costs, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel: Medical benefits etc., Administrative
costs, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Medical benefits etc., Administrative costs, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Medical benefits etc., Administrative
costs, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Medical benefits etc., Administrative
costs, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Medical
benefit Government Employees' Accident Compensation,
etc.: Medical benefit, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation: Medical benefit, etc.
 Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation: Medical benefit
 Public Health: Expenses for measures ensuring the
medical care delivery system, Expenses for
infectious disease control, Expenses for healthpromotion measures, etc.
 Public Assistance: Medical aid, Long-term careassistance Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare for
persons with disabilities, Expenses for preventive
measures against child abuse, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Medical benefit
 Health: Patient transportation, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Local government
expenditure on medical care exclusively financed
by local revenue, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Medical benefit
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases Infectedfrom Biological Products: Medical benefit
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Medical benefit Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, etc.:
Medical benefits Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Medical
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OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

FamilyCategory

Family includes expenditure which supports
families(i.e.
excluding
one-personhouseholds). This expenditure is often
related to the costs associated with raisingchildren or with the support of otherdependents.
Expenditure
relatedtomaternity and parental leave is grouped
under the family cash benefits sub-category.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association: Lump sum payments formaternity and parental leave
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Lump sum
payments for maternity leave, etc.
 Seamen's Insurance: Lump sum payments formaternity leave Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel: Maternity allowance Employment Insurance: Parental leave benefits,
Care leave benefits, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Expenses for occupational safety and healthmeasures, Expenses for work-life balancepromotion
 Child Allowance (Jido Teate) ：Cash benefits,etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Parental leave benefits, Care leave
benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Parental leave benefits, Care leave
benefits, etc.
 Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease
control Public Assistance: Maternity assistance,
Education assistance Employment Measures: Employment
stabilization and promotion for elderly persons,etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for supporting children
and child rearing, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Public nurseryschools, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Pension benefits for children withdisabilities
 School Expense Assistance Programme and Early
Childhood Education: Expenses for the primaryand secondary education etc.

Active labour
marketprogrammes

Active labour market programmes - contains
all social expenditure (other than education)
which is aimed at the improvement of thebeneficiariesʼ prospect of finding gainful
employment or to otherwise increase theirearnings capacity. This category includes
spending on public employment services
and administration, labour market training,
special programmes for youth when intransition from school to work, labour
market programmes to provide or promote
employment for unemployed and otherpersons (excluding young and disabled
persons) and special programmes for thedisabled.

 Employment Insurance: Expenses for carryingout employment placement businesses etc.,
Education training benefits, Expenses forvocational skills development for persons withdisabilities, etc.
 Employment Measures: Expenses for vocational
skills development and improvement,
Employment stabilization and promotion for
elderly persons, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Employment
measures for the elderly Japan Organization for Employment of theElderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job
Seekers: Allowance for employing persons withdisabilities, etc.

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OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Unemployment

This category includes all cash expenditure topeople compensating for unemployment.
This includes redundancy payments out ofpublic resources as well as pensions tobeneficiaries before they reach the 'standard'
pensionable age if these payments are madebecause they are out of work or otherwise forreasons of labour market policy.

 Employment Insurance 2: Job applicants'
benefits, Job applicants' benefits for the elderly,etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Compensation for unpaid wages
 Employment Measures: Employment
stabilization and promotion of elderly persons,etc.

Housing

Rent subsidies and other benefits to theindividual to help with housing costs. This
includes direct public subsidies to tenants
earmarked for support with the cost of
housing.

 Public Assistance: Housing assistance Social Welfare: Expenses for public assistancemeasures etc.
 Housing: Expenses for housing measures

SOCX also reports direct housing provision
to the elderly, disabled, low income families,
but excludes mortgage relief (fiscal),(capital-) subsidies towards the constructionof housing support or implicit subsidies.
Other social
policy areas

This category includes social benefits whichfall outside the scope of the categories listed
above. Specifically, these are public
assistance benefits and any benefits in kind,which cannot be categorized into othercategories.

 National Health Insurance: Miscellaneous
benefits Mutual Aid Association of Private School
Personnel: Accident benefits, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Accident benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Accident benefits Public Health: Assistance for residents affectedby the nuclear Incidents, etc.
 Public Assistance: Livelihood assistance,
Occupational assistance Social Welfare: Disaster policy expenses, etc.
 Employment Measures: Special temporary grant
for creating immediate employment
opportunities
 Aid for War Victims: Assistance for repatriates,etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Welfare office, etc.
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Special
condolence money for victims of the great east
Japan earthquake Housing: Great east japan earthquake
reconstruction project expenses
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Special
benefits for crime victims
 Disaster Victims Livelihood Recovery Support
System: Expenses for support funds

Notes:
1. Expenditure of some project's items are not necessarily added on one policy area but separately added on two or morepolicy areas.
2. Maternity and parental leave benefits under the employment insurance are categorized as "Family". Training subsidies
are categorized as "Active labour market programmes".

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2-3 Social security schemes contained in Social Benefit by category
Name
Social Insurance

Family Allowance
Public Employees

Public HealthService

Health Insurance Managed by theJapan Health Insurance Association
Society-managed Health Insurance
National Health Insurance(Including Medical Care System for
Retired Persons)
Medical Care System for the Elderlyin the Latter Stage of Life
Long-term Care Insurance
Employees' Pension Insurance
Employees' Pension Funds
Coal Mining Pension Fund
National Pension
National Pension Fund
Farmers' Pension Fund
Seamen's Insurance
Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery
Organization, Employees' Mutual
Aid Association
Mutual Aid Association of Private
School Personnel
Employment Insurance
Workmen's Accident Compensation
Insurance
Child Allowance
National and Related Public Service
Mutual Aid Association
Existing Associations, etc.

Breakdown list if the program has several components
NTT Corporate Pension Funds, Japan Tobacco Mutual Aid
Association, Japan Railway Group Mutual Aid Association

Local Government Employees'
Mutual Aid Association

Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid, Mutual Aid
Associations for Members of Regional Assemblies

Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.

Subsidies for Mutual Aid Association Established Under
Former Ordinances, Subsidies for Federation of National PublicService Personnel Mutual Aid Association, etc.

Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.

Government Employees' Accident Compensation (Regularservice), Accident Compensation for Government Employees inSpecial Service in the House of Representatives, House ofCouncilors, National Diet Library, courts, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and Ministry of Defense

Local Government Employees'
Accident Compensation

Local Government Employees' Accident Compensation,
Accident Compensation for Volunteer Firefighters

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan Tobacco
Inc. Corporation, Japan Railway Construction, Transport andTechnology Agency JNR Settlement Administration
Department, etc.

National Public Employees' Pensions
Local Public Employees' Pensions
Public HealthExpenses for measures ensuring the medical care delivery
system, Expenses for measures controlling and preventing
infectious diseases, Expenses for measures for the atomic bomb
exposed, Expenses for health and welfare for persons withdisabilities, Expenses for policies on social security related to therecovery from the great east japan earthquake, Local
revitalization promotion expenses in response to the COVID19 pandemic, Consular policy expenses, etc.

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Name
Public Assistanceand Social Welfare

Public Assistance

Breakdown list if the program has several components-

Social Welfare

Expenses for childcare measures, Expenses for maternal andchild public health service, Expenses for supporting children
and child rearing, Miscellaneous expenses for social welfare,Temporary special benefits for child-rearing households,
Operating expenses for public pension, etc.

Employment
Measures

Employment Measures

Special temporary grant for creating immediate employment
opportunities, Employment stabilization and promotion ofelderly persons, etc., Expenses for vocational skills development
and improvement, Expenses for supporting vocational skills
development for youth and others, etc.

Aid for War
Victims

Aid for War Victims

Pensions to surviving families and ex-servicemen, Expenses forsupport of war-bereaved and families of the unrepatriated,
Expenses for support measures for japanese remaining in chinaetc., etc.

Other Schemes

Local government expenditureexclusively financed by local revenue

Local government expenditure on medical care exclusively
financed by local revenue, Public care home for elderly, Publicnursery schools, etc.

Relief System for Sufferers fromAdverse Drug Reactions

Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug Reactions,
Subsidies for specific hepatitis C virus infection

Relief System for Sufferers from
Diseases Infected from Biological
Products
Small-and-medium Size Enterprise
Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid
System, etc.
Mutual Aid System for the
Retirement Allowance for the Staff ofSocial Welfare Institutions etc.
Japan Organization for Employmentof the Elderly, Persons with
Disabilities and Job Seekers
Pollution-related Health Damage
Compensation System
Asbestos Health Damage Relief
System, etc.
Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid
Benefit
School Expense Assistance
Programme and Early Childhood
Education
Support for Those Suffering from
Residual Disability from Automobile
Accidents
Housing
Benefit System for Crime Victims
Disaster Victims Livelihood
Recovery Support System
Health-Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for the Staffof Social Welfare Institutions and Others, Pension Insurance for
Disabled People
Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, Benefits forConstruction Workers with Specific Asbestos Health Damage
Expenses for the primary and secondary education etc. (School
expense assistance), etc.

Expenses for housing measures, etc.
Vaccine purchase and distribution costs (equivalent tovaccinations inoculated in 2021)

Note: Some schemes and projects are categorized in only Administrative costs or Others.

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2-4 Social security schemes contained in Social Benefit by functional category
Category
Old age

1

Survivors 2

ILO Definitions

Examples in Japan

This function covers all benefits paid
to persons who have withdrawn
from the labour market due toretirement.

 Long-term Care Insurance: Old age careservices, Old age care preventive services
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Old-age pension,
Withdrawal allowances, etc.
 Employees' Pension Funds, Coal Mining
Pension Fund, National Pension Fund,
Farmers' Pension Fund: Old-age pension, etc.
 National Pension: Old-age pension, Old-age
welfare pension, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Retirement mutual aid
pension, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Retirement benefits National Public Employees' Pensions, Local
Public Employees' Pensions
 Social Welfare: Expenses for promoting dailylife support measures for the elderly Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Public care homefor elderly Small-and-medium Size Enterprise Retirement
Allowance Mutual Aid System, etc.: Severance
benefits Mutual Aid System for the Retirement
Allowance for the Staff of Social Welfare
Institutions etc.: Severance allowancesThis function covers benefits arisingfrom the death of a protected
person.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association, Society-managed Health
Insurance, National Health Insurance, Medical
Care System for the Elderly in the Latter Stageof Life, Seamen's Insurance, Workmen's
Accident Compensation Insurance: Support for
funeral expenses, Funeral service fees
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Survivors'
pension National Pension: Survivors' basic pension,
Lump sum payments for survivors, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Survivors' pension,
Lump sum payments for survivors, Support for
funeral expenses, etc.
 Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc., Local Government
Employees' Accident Compensation, Public
Corporation Staffs' Accident Compensation:
Funeral compensation
 Public Health: Expenses for measures controllingand preventing infectious diseases, Expenses formeasures for the atomic bomb exposed Aid for War Victims: Survivors' pension, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Survivors' pension, Funeral service
expenses
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases
Infected from Biological Products: Survivors'
pension, Funeral service expenses
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement
Allowance for the Staff of Social Welfare

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Examples in Japan

Invalidity benefits

This function covers any benefit
arising from the partial or total
inability of a protected person toparticipate in gainful employment
due to a non-occupational chronic
condition owing to disease or injury
or by reason of the loss of a member
or a function.

Employment injury

This function covers any benefit paidby a work injury program for workrelated injury, disease, incapacityand death of a protected person. It
also covers the injury, disease,incapacity and death of a protected
person occurring even following the
cessation of the employment whichcaused the state.

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Institutions etc.: Condolence payments, etc.
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Survivors' compensation, Survivor's
lump sum payments
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, etc.:
Special survivor condolence money, Funeralservice expense, etc.
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Consolation payments for death, etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Survivors'
benefits
 Employee's Pension Insurance: Disability
pension, Disability allowances National Pension: Disability pension, Disability
basic pension
 Mutual Aid Associations: Disability pension,
Disability mutual aid pension benefits Public Health: Expenses for measures controllingand preventing infectious diseases, Expenses formeasures for the atomic bomb exposed, etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare
for persons with disabilities, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Expenditures ontherapeutic appliances, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Public facility forpeople with disabilities, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Disability pension, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement
Allowance for the Staff of Social Welfare
Institutions etc.: Disability pension
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Disability compensation, Medical careallowances, etc.
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, etc.:
Medical care allowance Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Consolation payment for disability, etc.
 Support for Those Suffering from Residual
Disability from Automobile Accidents: Careexpenses etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Disability
benefits, Benefit for serious wounds or sickness,etc.
 Seamen's Insurance: Medical benefit(Employment injury), Pension benefit(Employment injury)
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Disability benefit (Government
employees injury), Survivorsʼ benefit(Government employees injury)
 Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc., Local Government
Employees' Accident Compensation, Public
Corporation Staffs' Accident Compensation:
Medical benefit, etc.

CategoryILO Definitions

Examples in Japan

Sickness and health 3This function covers any benefit
provided with a view to maintaining,
restoring or improving the health ofthe person protected and his ability
to work and to attend to his personalneed. It includes benefits paid forthe loss of earnings due to absencefrom work necessitated by an acutecondition due to disease or injury
requiring medical treatment or
supervision.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association, Society- managed Health
Insurance, National Health Insurance, Medical
Care System for the Elderly in the Latter Stageof Life, Seamen's Insurance: Medical carebenefit, Sickness and injury allowance, Specificmedical checkups and counseling in healthinsurance schemes, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Short-term (medical)
benefit, Temporary absence from work benefit
 Public Health: Expenses for measurescontrolling and preventing infectious diseases,
Expenses for measures for the atomic bomb
exposed, etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare
for persons with disabilities, Expenses formaternal and child public health service, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Medical expenses
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Medical benefit
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Medical benefit Asbestos Health Damage Relief System, etc.:
Medical benefit
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Medical benefit
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Local government
expenditure on medical care exclusively
financed by local revenue, etc.

Family benefits

This function covers benefits which
are provided to families in order tomeet with costs and needs related tochild-raising and the support ofother dependents.
Generally family benefits areprovided for children up to a certain
age limit.

 Health Insurance Managed by the Japan Health
Insurance Association, Society- managed
Health Insurance, National Health Insurance,
Seamen's Insurance: Lump sum payments formaternity and parental leave, etc.
 Employment Insurance: Parental leave benefit,
Care leave benefit Child Allowance (Jido Teate): Benefit,
Expenditures for child and child-rearing support
services in local communities, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Lump sum payments
for maternity leave, Parental leave benefit, Careleave benefit
 Public Health: Pension for children withdisabilities, supplemental benefits for long-termcare Social Welfare: Special allowance for childrearing, Child rearing allowance, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Public nurseryschools, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Pension for children with disabilities
 School Expense Assistance Programme and
Early Childhood Education

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CategoryILO Definitions

Examples in Japan

Unemployment

This function covers any benefit
provided to a protected person
arising from the loss of gainful
employment.

Housing

Benefits provided (on a meanstested basis) to assist with the costof housing.

Social assistance andothersBenefits in cash or in kind provided
to individuals or certain targetedgroupswho require specific assistance inorder to obtain a defined minimum
level of income and to meet
minimum subsistence requirements,
The majority of these benefits areprovided on a means-tested basis toindividuals w hose income (whether
from active employment or frompension benefits) falls below thepoverty line level.

 Employment Insurance 4: Jobseeker allowance,
Allowance for employment maintenance, etc.
 Employment Measures: Employment
stabilization and promotion of elderly persons,etc.
 Japan Organization for Employment of theElderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job
Seekers: Professional development expenses,etc.
 Public Assistance: Housing assistance Housing: Expenses for housing measures
 Mutual Aid Associations: Accident benefits, etc.
 Public Health: Assistance for residents affected by
the nuclear Incidents
 Public Assistance 5: Livelihood assistance,
Occupational assistance, etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for public assistancemeasures etc., Disaster policy expenses, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Assistance for repatriates,etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue: Welfare office, etc.
 Disaster Victims Livelihood Recovery Support
System: Expenses for support funds

Notes:
1. Medical expenses for elderly are included in the "Sickness and health" category.
2. Of pensions paid to survivors, expenditures provided from the accident compensation scheme are included in the"Employment injury" category.
3. Expenditures provided from the workmen's accident compensation scheme are included in the "Employment injury"
category.
Medical aid in public assistance is included in the "Social assistance and others" category.
4. Maternity leave benefit and family- care leave benefit in continuous employment are included in "Family".
5. Housing aid in public assistance is included in the "Housing" category.

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2-5 Social security schemes included in Receipts of Social Security Schemes (EU standards)
Receipts of Social Security Schemes (EU standards) include receipts of the schemes listed inAppendix 2-1. However, receipts of the following schemes are excluded as they do not provide
direct benefits to households:
・A portion of aid to employers under employment insurance, employment measures, andother schemes (programs undertaken by the Japan Organization for Employment of theElderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers)1
・Promotion costs, aid to training of medical and nursing professionals, etc., under schemes
related to public health and social welfare.
The following scheme is are not included in Social Expenditure (OECD standards) and Social
Benefits and Social Security Revenue (ILO standards), but included in Receipts of Social Security
Schemes (EU standards):
・Defined Benefit Corporate Pension:2

Employment adjustment aid under employment insurance schemes, which is provided to subsidize costs that are ultimately
paid to employees such as leave allowance, are included, but any other aid to employers is not included (it is excluded from
employers' social contributions by estimation). Specifically, the relevant amount is estimated by multiplying the amount of
employer contributions under employment insurance by the percentage attributable to the employment maintenanceprogram and the vocational skills development program and the percentage of costs that should be excluded under the EU
standards in these programs. Among programs undertaken by the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly,
Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers, the persons with disabilities employment levy scheme is excluded as it is not
ultimately paid to employees.
2
Under the EU standards, private pension funds formed for each occupational field or labor union that invest contributionsin accordance with the provisions of law or agreements made between employees and employers are included, provided thatthe employer assumes the investment risk. As for relevant schemes in Japan, Defined Benefit Corporate Pension falls under
the category mentioned above. However, Defined Contribution Pension (either corporate-type or individual-type) is
excluded because under this scheme, plan participants decide where to invest and personally assume their investment risk.
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