Welfare minister Chikara Sakaguchi said Friday he opposes cutting national pension payments equivalent to price falls over the past three years if the government lifts its freeze on linking price fluctuations to pension benefits.
“We should not cut them in a retroactive manner. We can never accept it,” Sakaguchi, minister of health, labor and welfare, told a news conference.
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