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Handbook for the Physically Disabled: Visual impairment class 2
Last Updated February 13, 2024
The main services available are as follows.
Support for living at home
- Bathing service for severely disabled people
→There is a burden depending on your income - Establishment of Anshin Denwa (emergency help call) ※Those who live alone
→There is a burden depending on your income - household garbage's contact collection and oversized garbage's take-out collection
Those who live alone who cannot take out garbage
Daily life tools and assistive devices
- Payment and loan of daily life tools ※Others from incurable disease
→There is a burden depending on your income and income restrictions. - Delivery and repair of assistive devices
→There is a burden depending on your income and income restrictions. - Training, assistance equipment creation, purchase cost subsidy ※Those under the age of 18 who are recognized as having the effect of training and assistance
→There is a burden depending on your income
Housing
- Subsidy for living environment improvement expenses → There is a burden depending on your income and income restrictions.
- Relocation rent subsidy ※There are other conditions
→There are income restrictions - Application for UR rental housing (rental housing of former city public corporation) ※There are other conditions
- Preferential access to municipal and Prefecture Housing
※Relax the occupancy income standard, preferential winning rate, allow single occupancy
→There is a burden depending on your income and income restrictions.
Services that support going out
- Movement support project (guide help) ※There are other conditions
→There is a burden depending on your income - Guide volunteer ※Registration required
- Dispatch of deafblind interpreters and assistants
- Discount on fares (JR)
- Discount on fares (private railways)
- Discounts on fares (buses and subways)
- Issuance of special bus and subway tickets
- Taxi fare discount ※Person who has identification card of specific disease medical care certificate, registrant
- Issuance of welfare taxi tickets
- Discounts on toll road tolls
- Discount on fares (domestic airlines) ※12 years old or older
- Discounts on car parking lots ※Discounts vary depending on the degree of disability.
- Exemption from bicycle parking fees
- Designation of vehicles that are exempt from parking prohibition ※Other people with pigmentodermatosis
Information
Medical care
- Independence support medical care (upbringing medical care) ※elementary school student under the age of 18
→There is a burden depending on your income and income restrictions. - Independence support medical care (rehabilitation medical care) ※Holders of disability certificate 18 years or older
→There is a burden depending on your income and income restrictions. - Assistance from medical expenses with severe disabilities → There are income restrictions
- Medical System for Elderly Senior Citizens ※Those who are 65 years old or older and under 75 years old and have been certified by the Regional Coalition
Benefits, pension, etc., loans
- Allowance for severely disabled people at home in Kanagawa Prefecture ※Persons with severe disabilities with disabilities, intellectual and mental disabilities, recipients of welfare allowances for children with disabilities and special allowances for persons with disabilities
→There are income restrictions - Special Child Raising Allowance ※Other persons with similar disabilities
→There are income restrictions - Welfare allowance for children with disabilities ※Other persons with similar disabilities
→There are income restrictions - Child Raising Allowance ※Other persons with similar disabilities
→There are income restrictions - Child care allowance for children with disabilities (congenital disorders or abnormalities that occurred within 2 years after birth) ※Applicable to Yokohama City National Health Insurance members
- Special disability allowance ※Other persons with similar disabilities
→There are income restrictions - Support for persons with disabilities ※Other persons with permanent mental or physical disabilities
→There is a burden depending on your income - Welfare benefits for persons with disabilities in Japan ※Some people are eligible
→There are income restrictions - Loan of housing extension and renovation expenses (life welfare fund) ※Other conditions and examination
→There are income restrictions - Loan of skill acquisition fund (life welfare fund) ※Other conditions and examination
→There are income restrictions
Taxes, utilities, etc.
- Income tax deductions for persons with disabilities
- Tax exemption from city prefectural tax
→There are income restrictions - Deduction for persons with disabilities in city and prefectural tax
- Deduction of persons with disabilities in inheritance tax
- Tax exemption and reduction of personal business tax ※There are other conditions
- Reduction of taxes in motor vehicle tax (jidosha-zei)
- Reduction of light motor vehicles tax (keijidosha-zei)
- Maru Yu (Interest tax exemption for small deposits, etc.)
- Exemption from oversized garbage processing fees
- Reduction of water rates, etc.
- Exemption from NHK broadcast reception fees ※All household heads, contractors, and household members are exempt from tax
- Exemption from NTT phone number guidance fees
In addition, there are services that can be used for consultation counters, nursing and education, training, employment and employment, sports, culture and recreation, promotion of local activities, facilities, organizations for persons with disabilities and volunteers.
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