Yeongam-gun Realizes 'Donghaeng Yeongam' Without Welfare Blind Spots

Promotion of Reducing Health Insurance Premium Burden for Low-Income Residents

Yeongam County Office (Photo by Yeongam County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 5th that since last month, it has been providing support for National Health Insurance premiums and Long-term Care Insurance premiums for the elderly to low-income residents facing economic difficulties, including the elderly, disabled, and single-parent families.

This project is a preventive welfare initiative aimed at alleviating the burden on low-income residents who are not medical benefit recipients under the National Basic Livelihood Security Act but have difficulty paying National Health Insurance premiums despite poor living conditions, and resolving issues such as losing medical benefits due to delinquency.

The support targets are local subscribers registered in Yeongam-gun, including households with elderly members aged 65 or older, households headed by persons registered as disabled under the “Disabled Welfare Act,” and single-parent families under the “Single-Parent Family Support Act.” The support criteria are households with premiums below the minimum insurance premium announced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (monthly 15,410 KRW as of 2020), and approximately 1,400 households will receive a total of 125.1 million KRW in support.

The selection of beneficiaries is based on premium imposition data notified by the National Health Insurance Corporation, and the final list of selected beneficiaries and premiums will be directly supported to the National Health Insurance Corporation.

A county official stated, “We expect this to greatly help alleviate the economic burden of low-income residents facing difficulties, and we plan to make further efforts to eliminate welfare blind spots so that no residents fail to receive medical support due to inability to pay even the minimum insurance premium.”

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