Kiryu City Punishes 7 Staff Over Improper Welfare Payments

"Breaking News ""Gunma Prefecture"".

By AI of ""Isesaki FM"".

In response to the issue of repeated inappropriate payments of welfare benefits in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, the city has taken disciplinary action against seven employees involved. The chief in his 30s who received the disciplinary action is said to have neglected to make decisions on the payment of welfare benefits, and to have used a seal kept in the Welfare Division to stamp documents without the person's consent.

The city has imposed a one-tenth pay cut for one month on the chief and five managers in their 50s, and has issued a warning to the chief inspector in his 40s."