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You may be eligible to receive up to 37,000 JPY per month in government subsidies for your child’s education at OWIS Japan, ages 3-5.
The Free Childcare and Child Education Subsidy is an initiative that offers financial assistance to working families with children using kindergartens, nursery schools, daycare centres, certified children’s schools, and other such childcare facilities. The Japanese government initiative offers to reimburse families for the cost of childcare where all parents/guardians are in employment and unable to stay at home to look after children.Each ward office will have different rules on the amount of work parents will need to be doing in order to apply for the subsidy, so please check the specific minimum number of hours you should work with your local authority.
OWIS is registered with the prefecture and city government as a childcare facility and allows the parents of our students to potentially qualify for this subsidy. You can receive up to 37,000 yen each month for each child aged 3-5 learning at OWIS. The money comes as a reimbursement after the child’s tuition has been paid.
Children from 0 to 2 years who are exempt from resident tax are also reimbursed up to 42,000 yen per month under the subsidy.
To be eligible, it is essential to obtain the “Certification of the Need for Childcare” from the municipal office where your family is registered (each ward office might have a slightly different name for the certificate). You can apply for the “Certification of the Need for Childcare” immediately as soon as your child is enrolled.
Whilst you are there, please also verify with them the specific conditions required by your municipal office to receive the subsidy, including the names of the documents you will need. This process usually takes two to three weeks.
We have a multi-faceted application process that considers a variety of factors before determining whether or not your child will be admitted to OWIS. Of course, as with any school, we have basic requirements that must be met before an application be considered.
Parents are asked to make their requests by email. Please write “OWIS” and your child’s full name in the subject line when submitting your request.We will not be able to proceed until we have all the information from you.Parents do not need to send us the documents themselves. You can simply let us know the full names of which documents you require, and we will download them from the government website. If it is difficult to type out the name of the document in Japanese, you can attach a picture of the document you received from the ward office.
Note, that you can make the request for the required documents at any time period that tuition has been paid for, however, we cannot give you the documents in advance of the months you want them for. This is because we need to provide the child’s school attendance rate on the document and so can only give you the documentation once those months have passed. This means, that when you apply to the school asking for three months of required documentation, you will only receive those documents at the end of that three-month period. Please be aware that some ward offices may also have a deadline, and may not accept documents for childcare that happened a long time ago (See Point 10). So please check with them before asking us for documents. The school will complete the documents you request and give them to your child’s teacher, who in turn, will put them in your child’s bag and notify you via Toddle.
Send the completed documents to your local ward office to receive a reimbursement on the costs of childcare. You will receive the three-month reimbursement altogether as a single lump sum payment.
Different ward offices have different systems, so it is best to check with your local authority on how often you should submit the documents. Most ward offices accept the forms once every three months. So if that is true for your ward, for the sake of paperwork, please apply to the school by email once every three months, and you will be able to continue receiving the subsidy.
Should you have any questions, please contact us using our contact form.We are here to assist you.