The government has failed to pay tens of billions of yen in unemployment insurance and workers' compensation to as many as 10 million people due to the labor ministry's publishing of faulty jobs data for the past 15 years, sources with knowledge of the matter said Thursday.The ministry is considering retroactively paying the benefits, which a high-ranking member of the ruling coalition said would require the state budget for the year beginning in April to be reworked to include the additional costs.On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare admitted that it had published the revi…READ FULL ARTICLE
