Gwangju City "How to Apply for the Birth and Childcare Allowance"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 11th that the ‘Gwangju Birth and Childcare Allowance,’ a core policy to make Gwangju a better place to have and raise children, will be applied and paid starting January 1.

The birth and childcare allowance is operated by dividing it into a birth congratulatory gift and a childcare allowance. The payment targets are newborns born after January 1 for the birth congratulatory gift, and children under 24 months as of January 1 for the childcare allowance.

The birth congratulatory gift can be applied for at the administrative welfare center of the resident district when the father or mother resides in Gwangju and registers the birth in Gwangju.

However, support is only provided to households where the father or mother of the newborn has resided in Gwangju for more than three months.

Accordingly, even if a child is born after January and the birth is registered in Gwangju, payment will not be made if the father or mother does not meet the requirement of residing for more than three months.

The childcare allowance is for children under 24 months as of January 1, and the father or mother must have resided in Gwangju for more than three months.

If the child allowance is being received, the payment will be automatically made to the child allowance account without a separate application.

In the case of moving into Gwangju, a separate childcare allowance application must be made when reporting the move-in at the administrative welfare center of the district, and payment will begin after three months from the move-in date.

The birth and childcare allowance is paid on the 25th of each month, and the January recipients will be paid in February after confirming residence and other details.

In other words, for children born in January, the birth congratulatory gift and childcare allowance are paid in February, and for children born in February, the birth congratulatory gift and childcare allowance are paid in March.

In this regard, the birth congratulatory gift (100,000 to 600,000 KRW) and Mother Box (100,000 KRW) paid until last year will be integrated into a birth congratulatory gift of 1,000,000 KRW.

Also, for children born last year, the birth congratulatory gift will be paid based on last year’s standards only for cases reported by the end of this year, and no birth congratulatory gift will be paid if reported after January 1 next year.

The infant hospital expenses (for second child or more, 1,000,000 KRW over two years) operated until last year will be replaced by the childcare allowance and will be paid only until January this year for applicants in December last year.

Gwak Hyun-mi, Director of the Women and Family Bureau of Gwangju City, said, “We will strengthen social responsibility for birth and childcare through support for the birth and childcare allowance,” adding, “We will create a child-friendly Gwangju by providing customized services such as public postpartum care services, happy housing for newlyweds, and care services for hospitalized children.”

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