Post-childbirth home visits and allowances（出産後の訪問・手当）

Under the newborn baby home visit scheme, all households with a baby will receive a visit by a professional member of staff by the time the child reaches 4 months of age.
All members of staff are welfare commissioners, commissioned child welfare volunteers, or people with experience in providing child-rearing support, have undertaken training relating to child-rearing in the community, and have an identification badge.
They provide information on child-rearing, disaster preparedness, and local events, and deliver baby toys (red rattles) to your doorstep and other locations.
They also hand out leaflets required to apply for the Application for financial support for expectant mothers (Childbirth and Child-rearing Support Program)
Visits are free of charge.

A midwife or public health nurse will visit families who have just given birth for the first time, or families with babies who weighed less than 2,500 g at birth.
They will check the health of the mother and baby together.
You can also consult with them about child-rearing.
Visits are free of charge.

We will contact you about home visits by a public health nurse, premature baby home visits, and newborn baby home visits based on the information provided on the birth notification form.
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・Apply via the app（外部サイト）
・Send the pink postcard attached to the included with the Mother and Child Health Handbook by post or bring it to the counter

This is an allowance that the City of Yokohama provides to people who are raising children.

People resident in Japan who are raising children from the age of 0 to 18 years (until the first March 31 after the child's birthday)

15,000 yen a month for children from the age of 0 to 3 years, 10,000 yen a month for children from the age of 3 to 18 years (30,000 yen a month for the 3rd child onward).
Please apply by post or at the counter of a ward office Children and Families Support Division. Documents can be obtained from a ward office counter or downloaded from the below page.

Child Allowance: Applications and Notifications page (in Japanese)

Benefits Package Section, Children and Families Division, Children and Youth Bureau, City of Yokohama 231-8771 (no address needed)

For more details, please check the Child Allowance: Overview page (in Japanese).

Inquiries

Tel: 045-641-8411 Fax: 045-641-8412 (*Inquiries in Japanese only)

Under this system, you can receive an age-based subsidy for children who have an address in Yokohama City and who are enrolled in health insurance to cover part of the cost of health care services provided through health insurance in the event they are hospitalized due to sickness or injury.
The subsidy is not provided for things which are not covered by health insurance, such as certain hospital beds not fully covered by health insurance.
Eligible people will be provided with a Medical Subsidy Certificate for Children.
For more information, please contactthe Health Insurance and Pension Division of the ward office where you live.