Child benefits eyed for non-regular workers

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

To tackle the country's low birth rate, the government and ruling parties have begun coordinating views to create a child-rearing support system for non-regular workers.

Through raising the sum of per capita monthly premiums of social insurance programs -- pension, medical, nursing care and unemployment insurance -- by a few hundred yen, the idea is to establish a system designed to support child-rearing by all generations, said several sources from the government and ruling parties.