Gyeonggi-do Disaster Basic Income Applications Near 50%... 430,000 People on First Day of 'On-site Application'

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Applications for the Gyeonggi-do Disaster Basic Income are approaching 50%. In particular, on the first day of on-site applications, not online, on the 20th, 430,000 people applied for the disaster basic income in just one day.

Gyeonggi-do announced on the 21st that from the 9th to the 20th, over 12 days, the number of applicants for the disaster basic income reached 6,513,212 people, which is 49.1% of the total eligible recipients (application amount of 1.0262 trillion KRW).

By payment method, online applications (local currency card and credit card), which started on the 9th, accounted for 45.8%, totaling 6,083,042 people (957.9 billion KRW). On-site offline applications (prepaid card), which began accepting applications from the 20th, accounted for 3.2%, with 430,170 people (68.3 billion KRW).

Looking at offline applications for that day, 369,949 people flocked to the Eup/Myeon/Dong administrative welfare centers, accounting for 86% of all applicants. NongHyup recorded 60,221 people, making up 14%.

With the prepaid card method, proxy receipt is possible if authorized by family members. Therefore, one prepaid card can be used to receive disaster basic income for multiple people.

Meanwhile, the amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Specialized Credit Finance Business Act, which temporarily raises the limit per prepaid card from the current 500,000 KRW to 3,000,000 KRW until September, passed the Cabinet meeting on the same day, leading to a decrease in demand for prepaid card quantities.

A provincial official stated, "We plan to monitor the situation during the first week of prepaid card applications and order additional quantities if necessary," adding, "So far, we have secured 2.5 million cards, with an additional 2.5 million cards to be secured by the 29th of this month, and with the prepaid card limit raised, there should be no disruption in the supply of prepaid cards."

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