The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will survey municipalities that are reducing or waiving premiums for nursing-care insurance for low-income senior citizens, ministry officials said.
The ministry survey comes as an increasing number of municipalities are cutting nursing-care premiums for the elderly, particularly low-income seniors, despite ministry instructions to avoid such cuts.
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