About nursing care assistance

Long-term care assistance under the Public Assistance Act was newly established in 2000 with the introduction of the Long-Term Care Insurance System to ensure the minimum level of life for nursing care services covered by The Long-term Care Insurance. (Article 11, Paragraph 1, Item 5 of the Act)

It is said that "applicable to those who need care and those who need support who cannot maintain a minimum level of life due to poverty" (Article 15-2 of the Act), and specifically, shown in the table below Person becomes target of care assistance.

Nursing care assistance is provided based on applications from recipients of social security. If it is deemed necessary to provide nursing care services, you will receive nursing care services from a nursing care institution designated by the Public Assistance Act, but as for the method of providing nursing care services, in principle, in-kind benefits It is said to be done by (Article 54-2 of the Act, Article 34-2 of the Act)
Specifically, instead of collecting user-paid fees from social security recipients, the designated nursing care institution will request the Health and Welfare Center to issue nursing care tickets, and based on the information on the nursing care ticket, the National Health Insurance Federation (National Federation of National Health Insurance Associations) will request nursing care assistance expenses.