Gyeongnam Province to Provide 200,000 Won Special Care Support Fund per Preschool Child

For 170,000 preschool children born from January 2014 to September 2020
200,000 KRW per child, Child Allowance paid in cash to the payment account before Chuseok

Gyeongnam Province Childcare Support Payment. (Photo by Gyeongnam Province)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kang Sharon] Gyeongsangnam-do announced on the 28th that it will provide a special care support fund of 200,000 KRW per child to 170,000 preschool children in the province.

The recipients are preschool children born between January 2014 and September 2020 who were receiving child allowance as of September 2020. Children born in September 2020 who apply for the child allowance within 60 days after their birth date and start receiving the allowance from September can receive the support retroactively.

The special care support fund for children provided this time will be given in cash, unlike the child care coupons distributed in April, and will be paid collectively to the child allowance payment accounts of eligible children through the local city or county offices before Chuseok without a separate application process.

Guardians of the eligible children will also receive notification messages before and after the payment.

Park Ildong, Director of the Women's, Family and Youth Bureau of the province, stated, “We will do our best to make early payments before Chuseok to help families raising preschool children who face increased care burdens due to COVID-19, even if only a little.”

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