A district court here ruled illegal the Kita-Kyushu city government’s decision to suspend welfare benefits for a couple because they own a car.In Friday’s ruling, Presiding Judge Takahisa Masuda said that without a car, it would be difficult for Hisako Minekawa, 77, to travel about 15 kilometers to her hospital once a week.援交She uses a wheelchair due to an intractable disease while her husband Yoshikatsu, 68, is unable to work because of his own illness and the amount of time he devotes to caring for her.Masuda said officials at the city could “easily expect” that the couple would experience hardship without the public assistance.The city repeatedly told the couple to part with their minicar after they began receiving welfare benefits in November 2000. チェリーボーイThe payments were suspended from August 2004 to March 2005.
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