Home Help Support

Child-rearing/Nursing Support

Child-rearing/Nursing Support

Home Help Support

Outline of the System

This is a system to provide financial assistance when full-time faculty and staff or their spouses (*) become injured or sick, experience hardship in doing housework or caring for children or family members, and decide to employ a home helper.

Eligible Individuals

Full-time Faculty, Non-tenured Faculty, Researchers, Junior Researchers, Research Associates, Research Associates (JOSHU), Research Associates (KENKYU JOSHU), Full-time Staff and Full-time Contract Employees
(Faculty and staff who are employed through external funding will be eligible.)

Criteria for Financial Assistance

1.When full-time teaching faculty and staff or their spouses (*) become injured, sick, have a baby or are hospitalized, experience hardship in doing housework or caring for children or family members, and decide to employ a home helper.

2.When full-time faculty and staff or their spouses (*) find it necessary to care for a parent or child, experience hardship in doing housework or caring for additional children or family members, and decide to employ a home helper.

3.Other cases similar to the above.

<Note>This financial assistance will not be paid simply because a home helper is used (i.e. to care for a family member at home).

(*) Inclusion of anyone who is recognized by the University as a person who is in a similar circumstance to that of a marriage with a faculty or staff regardless of their gender (referred to as “partners”).

Assistance Amount

70 percent of the home helper cost (excluding transportation costs and commission fees), with a maximum payment of 7,000 yen per day.

Period of Assistance

Up to 60 days per year

Application Procedure

For prospective applicants, please click here and login to MyWaseda.

Submission Period

Submit application within one month after date of use.

Documents to submit

After submitting your application, please submit the following documents to the Diversity Promotion Office.

The receipt and service usage statement are required for all applications, regardless of the reason for applying.

Original Receipt (Required)

The receipt must be issued in the name of the faculty or staff member applying for the subsidy.

Service Usage Statement (Required)

The statement must clearly indicate:

the date(s) of service;
the number of service hours per day;
the service fee charged per day; and
a breakdown of the charges.

For Applications Based on Illness or Injury

A Certificate of Circumstances completed by the applicant’s attending physician must be submitted in its original form.

The designated form is available [here].

Please note that the certificate is valid for up to three months. If you continue to receive the subsidy beyond this period, an updated medical evaluation and a newly completed Certificate of Circumstances must be submitted.

For Applications Based on Caregiving

Please submit one of the following documents:

a copy of the Long-Term Care Insurance Certificate showing the care-need level certification;
a copy of the Notice of Long-Term Care Certification Results; or
a medical certificate or other supporting documentation.

For Applications Based on Childbirth or Hospitalization

Please submit supporting documentation such as:

the Maternal and Child Health Handbook;
a medical certificate; or
other official documents verifying the circumstances.

Application Procedure (Inquiry)

For prospective applicants, please contact the Office for Promotion of Equality and Diversity. We will send more detailed instructions and an application form.

Name:
Department:
Faculty ID/Staff ID:
Details:

After filling in, please send to the address below.

E-mail：[email protected]

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