Gimhae City Intensifies Efforts to Identify Households in Welfare Blind Spots

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] Gimhae City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 5th that it will operate a focused period for discovering and supporting winter crisis households (welfare blind spots) from December last year to February this year to identify and assist vulnerable groups during the winter season.

The main targets for discovery are households that have lost beneficiary status, single-person households, low-income single-parent households, housing-vulnerable groups, welfare crisis households, households with long-term arrears in public utility bills such as city gas, electricity, and water, and households requiring emergency support due to unemployment, illness, or disability.

To efficiently discover welfare blind spots, the city has appointed private personnel with easy access to residences, such as neighborhood leaders (I·Tongjang), postal workers, gas inspectors, welfare security officers, and yogurt delivery workers, as honorary social welfare officers to establish and operate a dense human safety net, and is intensively promoting this through banners and bus stop doors.

Discovered individuals receive services tailored to their needs and crisis situations through linkage between public and private support.

Park Jong-ju, Director of the Citizen Welfare Division, said, “During difficult times, it is necessary for citizens to pay attention to vulnerable groups and cooperate in finding and helping neighbors in need,” and added, “We ask for careful attention so that marginalized groups experiencing difficulties around us can have a warm winter.”

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