In 2020, Japan paid the tokubetsu teigaku kyūfukin, a special cash payment of 100,000 yen for the whole population. The application process began on May 1. Some municipalities printed out the online applications and checked them by eye against their own data, or in pairs, with one person reading aloud.
The city of Chōfu in Tokyo began to accept online applications on May 1. On May 15, it announced that it would stop from May 20, because many applications were flawed or duplicated. A government document dated June 5 reported that 51 municipalities had stopped or suspended online applications.