Gwangju Nam-gu Launches Free Postal Delivery Service for Disability Registration Cards

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kim Byeong-nae) announced on the 6th that it will officially launch a postal delivery service for disability registration cards as a new project this year to enhance administrative efficiency in issuing disability registration cards and provide administrative convenience to people with disabilities.

The postal delivery service for disability registration cards aims to reduce the number of visits by people with disabilities to administrative agencies until they receive their registration cards and shorten the time required for card issuance. Nam-gu signed an agreement with the Chungcheong Regional Post Office at the end of last year for postal delivery and has been providing the service since early this year.

With the introduction of this service, unnecessary administrative procedures related to the issuance of disability registration cards within the district will be simplified, and the convenience for people with disabilities in the district is expected to improve significantly.

First, the number of visits by people with disabilities to administrative agencies to receive their registration cards will be reduced from two to one.

Previously, applicants had to visit the local administrative welfare center twice?once to apply for the disability registration card and once to receive it?which was inconvenient.

The time required to issue the disability registration card will also be greatly reduced.

Until last year, when a person with a disability submitted an application at their local administrative welfare center, the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation produced the registration card and sent it to the post office, which then delivered the card to the district office. The district office subsequently forwarded it to the local administrative welfare center for the applicant to pick up.

This process took about 15 days from application to receipt, but with the implementation of the postal delivery service, the time has been shortened to about 7 days.

In particular, since the registration card produced by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation is now delivered directly to the applicant’s residence via the post office, there is no longer a need for people with disabilities in the district to visit the local administrative welfare center again.

Additionally, Nam-gu has allocated a budget to cover the registered mail cost for the postal delivery of disability registration cards (3,820 KRW per case) to provide more welfare benefits to people with disabilities in the district, and the district office will bear this cost.

A Nam-gu official said, “Unnecessary administrative efforts in the process of issuing disability registration cards have been reduced, and the inconvenience of clients having to revisit administrative agencies has been eliminated. We will continue to discover and promote better services in the future.”

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