A committee established to distribute donations — consisting of four organizations that have been accepting cash donations, including the
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In Minami-Sanrikucho in the prefecture, one-seventh of the staff at the town office is either dead or missing. In addition to difficulty determining who should be paid because the town’s family register was washed away in the tsunami, the town government does not know how many residents have evacuated to places outside the town, according to a town official. Officials are at a loss, with one saying, “”There’s so much work that needs to be done first, so we can’t spend time on the relief money.””
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Besides shortages of staff and computers at local governments, many victims have lost their bankbooks and automatic teller machine cards, making it difficult to transfer payments. Reissuing ATM cards and bankbooks can take time.
In Fukushima Prefecture, each household within 30 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will receive
According to the prefectural government, it has received about
Tomiokamachi, which has moved its town office to Koriyama, has delivered
Officials of other local governments agreed that delays in making the payments had been caused by difficulty in tracking down residents.