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OwenM wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:20 am Thanks for that and a big congratulations to you. Concerned as I had a period of non-payment pre-2012 during my part-time (not studying pension systems) stage of my career. Hoping that 11 years of mutual aid payments should be enough now.

zeroshiki wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:11 am Congrats TokyoBogleHead! Now you're stuck here with us... forever.

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I've always wondered how much immigration/MOJ has access to our data. Not PR but I remember when they made me list out all my addresses ever and I accidentally peeked at the MOJ guy's notes and he had even my room number from 15 years ago which I had forgotten so didn't write down. I guess pension might be a completely different thing but I wonder if they make us write all these things not because they don't have access to it but because they want to know how honest we'd be with it.

TokyoBoglehead wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:57 am

OwenM wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:20 am

TokyoBoglehead wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 12:03 pm
This document has two sections and is offered free of charge. A: A line by line summary of pension payments within a requested period. B: A quick glance, 1 page summary. Where every payment month is represented by a symbol.

Document B makes it very clear if you have missed a payment, were a dependent, etc etc. It also makes it clear if you PREPAID or PAID MONTHLY. So I suggest PREPAYING if financially possible

What was the period requested? 2,5 years, everything? At the beginning of an application myself

They asked for 4 years the second time. I think the Japanese form says 3.

Don't use the English page. Don't rely on info more than a year or so old

Form 2 looks like this.

. . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
令1. S S. S P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P.
令2. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P
令3. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P
令4. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P

S would be paid monthly and P would be prepaid for the whole year.

So prepayment makes you look much more organized, financial stable, etc.

Make sure your prepay for the year of your application and the subsequent year if the application carries over.

(Purely anecdotal)

OwenM wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:25 am Hello everyone,

Quick question. I got a letter regarding my application. It says that my nenkin net screenshots do not show payment after February of this year. There seems to be a delay between payment of Shigaku Kyosai and the records of those payments showing up on the nenkin page. Just wondering what those who have been through this might suggest. Thanks.

OwenM wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:28 pm Thanks for the reply.

I took screenshots on June 18. At that time February 2023 was the latest record of payment recorded on the site. Also submitted nenkin tekibin, this also is for 12 months finishing in February 2023.

They requested documents that show payments after February 2023, but they don’t specify which document.

If I were to use screenshots it seems that I would be constantly 3 months behind. Off to the nenkin office to see if they can help I guess. Just wondered if any other shigaku kyosai people had the same issue.

TokyoBoglehead wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:36 pm I would suggest prepaying for the year if you have the means. This would eliminate the issue.