Jinju City Conducts Regular Verification Survey of Social Security Benefits for the First Half of 2021

Over 4,000 Income and Property Investigations by June 30 to Prevent Welfare Fund Leakage

Jinju City Hall Exterior View

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 6th that it will conduct the ‘2021 First Half Social Security Benefit Verification Survey’ on over 4,000 cases from the 5th to June 30th to verify the eligibility and appropriateness of support for welfare recipients.

In the 2019 verification survey, 4,728 cases were investigated in the first half and 3,721 cases in the second half, and last year, due to the COVID-19 crisis household survey, it was replaced by a monthly survey.

The survey targets all welfare benefit recipients and covers 13 security projects including Basic Livelihood Security, Basic Pension, Disability Pension, Near-Poverty Allowance, Near-Poverty Self-Support, Near-Poverty Out-of-Pocket Reduction, Near-Poverty Asset Formation Support, Single-Parent Family Support, Near-Poverty Class Verification, Other Law Medical Benefits, and Elementary to High School Education Expense Support Projects.

The city conducts the survey by adding financial asset information to all 80 types of income and property information available, such as health insurance monthly salary and property tax information obtained through the Social Security Information System, and proceeds through procedures such as duplicate registration and verification of reflected data.

During the survey period, the submission of supporting documents for verification and explanation of data notified to welfare recipients will be actively conducted using non-face-to-face online methods as much as possible to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection.

The city plans to re-examine the eligibility and benefit amount of current recipients through recently updated public data, encourage sincere reporting during income and property investigations, and if fraudulent receipt due to intentional or false reporting despite eligibility changes is confirmed, it will take measures to suspend benefits and recover payments.

A city official said, “The survey is conducted twice a year, and monthly outside of that period. This year, 100% of 1,044 cases have been completed.” He added, “We will prevent welfare finance leakage by recovering from fraudulent recipients and providing appropriate benefits, and for households that have lost welfare benefits but are struggling, we will minimize welfare blind spots by linking services from other welfare projects and the Eup/Myeon/Dong Community Security Council as much as possible.”

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