Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it will comply with a government order and pay nearly ¥50 billion in provisional compensation to about 50,000 households forced to leave Japan's 30-km evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Tepco said it will pay ¥1 million to multiperson households and ¥750,000 to singles and will attempt to distribute the money before the Golden Week holidays from late April to early May.
The company will distribute application forms to evacuees and people at evacuation shelters, who must then mail them back or give them directly to Tepco workers at evacuation centers, Tepco said.