-I came to Japan 9 months ago on a tourist visa, changed it to a 3 year spousal visa about 6 months ago
-I started working about 4 months ago, part time
-I kept getting mail telling me to pay into the pension system.
-wife and I went to the pension desk at city hall and they said I don't owe anything to the pension system because
- I had no income and was technically on a visitor/tourist visa for the first few months I was here and was thus exempt, and
- my wife put me under her name once I got my spousal visa and she is paying my pension out of her paycheck.
Great, right? Sounds like it's solved.
But, I keep getting mail from the Japanese pension service telling me to pay. The letters are now showing up with bright yellow and red highlighting and warning me of consequences for not paying.
Meanwhile, my wife is 9 months pregnant and staying at her parent's house and dealing with being 9 months pregnant. She is also confused by the situation.
Yeah, she's probably a better source for dealing with this than Reddit, but the timing isn't good right now. She's about to have our child any day and is rather preoccupied with that so I'm just wondering if any of you went through something similar.
Was city hall wrong? Is the pension service wrong? wtf?
by SemiUrusaii