Who do you trust more with your Yen?

From the Yomiuri:

Social Insurance Agency offices will stop accepting pension premium payments at their counters as early as next fiscal year to prevent SIA officials pocketing the money, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe said Saturday. Speaking on a program broadcast by YTV, Masuzoe said: "To stop [SIA officials and other public employees from] embezzling pension premiums, all subscribers will instead pay their premiums at convenience stores, or through postal savings or bank accounts. This will stop the problem."

Now there's a lesson to be learned. A high school part-timer working for the minimum wage at your local Lawson (a greedy, evil, capitalist business) can be trusted more than a comfortably paid middle-aged bureaucrat working at a beneficent and selfless government agency. Hm.