ポイント付与、近く終了　「ＧｏＴｏイート」予算上限に―農水省

　農林水産省は１３日、新型コロナウイルスで打撃を受けた飲食店支援策「Ｇｏ　Ｔｏ　イート」のうち、予約サイトを通じたポイント付与が近く終了する見通しだと発表した。予算上限に達するためで、予約サイトによって終了時期は異なるが、早ければ今週末に終わる可能性もある。
　事業予算は６１６億円。ポイント還元は１０月１日に始まり、今月１１日時点の予約は延べ５０００万人を超え、次回以降の飲食代決済に使える付与額は４００億円を上回った。当初１日当たり６億円程度だったが、直近で１７億円以上に伸びている。
　既存の予約に影響はなく、制度開始以降に付与されたポイントは来年３月末まで有効で、「まだほとんど使われてない」（食料産業局）という。（2020/11/13-20:21）

The Japanese agriculture ministry said Friday that it expects soon to stop providing reward points under the government's Go To Eat campaign for supporting restaurants hit hard by the novel coronavirus crisis.
   This is because the amount of funds spent on the reward points is reaching the budget limit, the ministry said. The points are granted to those who reserve restaurants through booking websites. The supply of the points will be terminated at the end of next week at the earliest for some websites.
   The ministry has earmarked 61.6 billion yen for the point program under the Go To Eat campaign. It started offering the points on Oct. 1. The cumulative number of people who booked restaurants using the program topped 50 million as of Wednesday, with points worth more than 40 billion yen in total given out.
   The value of points granted per day stood above 1.7 billion yen recently, up sharply from some 600 million soon after the start of the program. The points given out will be valid until the end of March 2021. The points have been little used so far, a ministry official said.
   The ministry has separately secured 86.8 billion yen for the distribution of premium meal vouchers, another program under the Go To Eat campaign. The vouchers, which are issued by prefectural governments, will continue to be given out for the time being, according to the ministry.