Editorial: Osaka court ruling on welfare cuts a warning against ignoring social lifelines

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Editorial: Osaka court ruling on welfare cuts a warning against ignoring social lifelines
The Mainichi
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The Osaka District Court has ruled the national government's reduction of base welfare benefit amounts illegal in a lawsuit filed by a group of welfare recipients in Osaka Prefecture.
The court said the welfare minister overstepped their bounds and abused their discretionary power; it also nullified local government decisions to cut benefit amounts based on national criteria.
The latest court decision was the second delivered among similar lawsuits filed with 29 district courts across Japan. In June last year, the Nagoya District Court dismissed a claim by welfare recipients after it recognized benefit cuts as within the welfare minister's discretion.

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