Chungnam, 'Resident Autonomous Monitoring' to Prevent Subsidy Fraud

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Chungnam Province plans to establish a resident autonomous monitoring system to prevent the fraudulent receipt of local subsidies.

On the 13th, the province announced that it will create and operate a "Resident Monitoring Officer System" with this purpose. On the same day, a commissioning ceremony for the provincial local subsidy monitoring officers will be held at the Gongju Goma Art Center. Eighty-five members of the Resident Participation Budget Committee will be appointed as monitoring officers.

The local subsidy monitoring officer system is implemented with an emphasis on residents themselves monitoring local subsidy projects and raising awareness of resident participation.

To this end, resident monitoring officers will carry out activities such as monitoring local subsidy projects, overseeing local subsidy recipients who fraudulently receive funds, and reporting fraudulent receipt acts.

Targets for reporting fraudulent receipt include cases where various subsidies or support funds are falsely reported or received and used through fraudulent methods.

Anyone among the residents can report fraudulent receipt, and if the fraudulent receipt is confirmed and the grant decision for the same matter is canceled, the informant will be rewarded up to 30% of the canceled amount or the amount ordered to be returned.

Gu Gi-seon, the provincial budget officer, said, “I hope that the activities of the Resident Participation Budget Committee members as local subsidy monitoring officers will become an opportunity to eradicate the problem of fraudulent receipt of local subsidies.”

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