Posted on 09/20/2011 3:35:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Residents furious over 60-page application, 160-page manual for TEPCO compensation
Residents affected by the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are furious after learning they will have to wade through a 60-page application form -- accompanied by a 160-page manual -- to seek compensation from the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO).
The company, which on Sept. 12 started sending out documents for individual compensation claims for the period between March and August, says its careful explanation of the process resulted in a large amount of documentation. However, this hasn't appeased residents.
"One can only assume it's to prevent people from billing them," one resident commented.
Before the company started sending out the application forms, it was receiving about 1000 inquiries a day, but that figure has now jumped to about 3,000 a day.
"The application forms arrived a few days ago, but I can't understand them at all, so I haven't started on them yet," said one man in his 60s who is living in a temporary housing unit in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. "Unless I hear an explanation of the process directly at a meeting, it'll be impossible."
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.jp ...
I suspect he assumed correctly.
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“Residents furious over 60-page application, 160-page manual for TEPCO compensation”
AND, it’s written in Japanese.
Wow 60 pages of Japanese/Legalese?
Yeah, but in English it's a 3 page pamphlet. ;)
And if one box isn’t checked I suspect the victim will have to start all over again. Any thing for a delay and no compensation.
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