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Handbook for the Physically Disabled: Visual impairment class 5
Last Updated February 13, 2024
The main services available are as follows.
Support for living at home
- 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
Services that support going out
- Dispatch of deafblind interpreters and assistants ※Degree of impairment due to overlap between visual and hearing is grade 2 or higher
- Discount on fares (JR)
- Discount on fares (private railways)
- Discounts on fares (buses and subways)
- Taxi fare discount ※Person who has identification card of specific disease medical care certificate, registrant
- Discounts on toll road tolls ※Persons with two types of disabilities are only self-driving.
- 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
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.
Benefits, pension, etc., loans
- 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
- 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
- Reduction of light motor vehicles tax (keijidosha-zei)
- Maru Yu (Interest tax exemption for small deposits, 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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