On Air: Fukuoka City Information/2013.9.14(Sat)/09:00～

In the beginning of June, Fukuoka City mailed a set of Child Allowance Subsidies status forms to qualifying households for childcare subsidies. Once a year, recipients must return the forms to confirm the current status of their household, showing that they still qualify.
After the city has received the status forms, they will send a notice of qualification for Childcare Allowance Subsidy payments. These notices are mailed only after being processed, and so households can expect them to be mailed from late September into early October.
For households that returned the form in June, childcare subsidy payments should begin to be received in October, as long as there were no problems, such as missing or incomplete information, when households returned the forms. Households that have not returned the forms yet are ineligible to receive childcare subsidy payments in October for the period beginning after June. Please be sure to submit outstanding forms as soon as possible. Also, households that returned the forms after July or that submitted incomplete forms will be able to receive the subsidy, however it may be late.
If you have questions regarding whether or not you submitted the forms, or what the status of processing is, you can call and check via phone. Or, if you have any concerns about the subsidy itself, please call the Child Allowance Call Center by phone at 092-711-2201.
And there is one more announcement about Red-back spiders. Red-back spiders become more active in warm seasons and the city would like you to take caution.
The spiders are black all over and about one centimeter in size, however they have a red-colored design on their abdomen. They are relatively peaceful spiders but are poisonous and have been known to bite people spontaneously. If you find one, be sure not to handle it with bare hands and kill it with regular pesticide spray found in the market. In addition, if you come upon one of their egg sacks, ranging from 1 to 2 centimeters in size, step on it and crush it out completely or saturate it in pesticide spray and dispose of it along with your burnable garbage.
Red-back spiders tend to like feeding on larvae in warm areas. They may be present in or around the lips of gutters, under benches or around planters. When doing outdoor work, such as flower gardening or cleaning, please wear gardening gloves.
If you are bitten, wash the bite with warm water, or soapy water, and seek medical attention. For further information about Red-back spiders, please inquire at the Living Environment Section of your local ward office.