A Newly Married couple in Japan will receive up to 600,000 yen ($5,700)

Who will not be happy if the government gives you money to start your life as a married couple? I bet we want it too. A Newly married couple inJapan can receive up to 600,000 yen ($5,700). This will be used to start their new life starting next April.

“Newly married couples can receive up to 600,000 yen ($5,700) to cover their rent and other costs to start a new life from next April if they live in a municipality adopting Japan's newlywed support program, government.,” sources said Sunday.

“This happens because the nation has an ultralow birth rate it causes mainly because people stay marry late or stay unmarried. This program aims to try to boost marriages and provide a larger sum and cover more couples”, said the sources at the Cabinet Office

To be able to have this privilege both husband and wife will have to be under age 40 as of the registered date of marriage and have a combined income of fewer than 5.4 million yen, up from age 35 and 4.8 million yen under the current conditions for the aid of up to 300,000 yen.

There are only 281 municipalities in Japan had adopted the program as of July because they need to shoulder half the expenses, but it will increase, the central government will bear two-thirds from fiscal 2021”. the sources said.