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Originally Posted by Columbine
Thanks for all your replies, everyone. I've passed the message along so hopefully it'll be resolved. I'm a little surprised to be honest, because pension payments for people on a student visa were never mentioned at all during the university application procedure, yet we had to cover a lot of other things. It also doesn't seem to have been mentioned by JET as no one out there had a clue they might have to pay this kind of money. A bit of a shock, needless to say, to be asked to cough up over £1000 out of the blue.
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I`d say this is something to take up with the school. They are responsible for passing this information on to international students.
Chances are, they figured that the majority of the students would be leaving Japan promptly after study, not heading on to employment within Japan, so didn`t want to mess with what would be more work for them. (Filing to pay pension, paying, then filing to receive the money back when the student leaves.)
I hope that your friend is able to get things straightened out. She should be able to make an extra bit of payment each month toward her back pension dues instead of paying it in a lump sum.