'Emergency Disaster Relief Fund' Regional Gift Certificates and Prepaid Cards Received by 780,000 Households on First Day of Application

The government's emergency disaster relief fund credit and debit card recharge application began at 7 a.m. on the 11th through the websites of nine card companies. Similar to the public mask 5-day rotation system, a day-of-the-week system is applied for applications, and from the 16th, applications can be made at any time. The support fund amounts are 400,000 KRW for single-person households, 600,000 KRW for two-person households, 800,000 KRW for three-person households, and 1,000,000 KRW for households of four or more. The photo shows a citizen visiting a community center in Jongno-gu, Seoul, looking at the support fund information notice on that day. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] On the first day of offline applications for the government's emergency disaster relief fund on the 18th, a total of 780,642 households received support funds in the form of local love gift certificates and prepaid cards through eup, myeon, and dong community service centers.

According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on the 19th, 417,980 households received the emergency disaster relief fund in the form of local love gift certificates, and 362,662 households received prepaid cards the previous day.

By region, Gyeonggi-do had the highest number of households receiving local love gift certificates with 148,328, followed by Incheon with 119,969 households, Gyeongbuk with 26,726 households, Gangwon with 24,839 households, Chungbuk with 24,383 households, and Seoul with 12,405 households.

For prepaid cards, Seoul had 97,127 households, Gyeonggi 59,298 households, Busan 50,883 households, and Jeonbuk 28,804 households.

On the 18th alone, the total number of emergency disaster relief fund applications, including credit/debit cards, local love gift certificates, and prepaid cards, amounted to 1.72 million households, totaling 1,109.8 billion won.

Accordingly, as of the 18th since the 4th, a total of 15.98 million households have received emergency disaster relief funds amounting to 10.0221 trillion won.

The government has been accepting online applications for the emergency disaster relief fund via credit/debit card charging since the 11th, and from the 18th, offline applications for local love gift certificates and prepaid card disaster relief funds began at eup, myeon, and dong offices. Credit/debit card charging applications can also be made at bank counters linked to each card company starting that day.

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