Are You Receiving Child Support Properly? Customized Service Busan City 'Single-Parent Family Support Project Team' Fully Launched

Providing Life Stability and Welfare Improvement Services for Single-Parent Families

Protecting Children's Rights through Child Support Enforcement Counseling Assistance

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Busan City is strengthening customized services to support the livelihood stability of single-parent families.

Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) announced on the 13th that it will operate the "Single-Parent Family Support Project Group" to provide livelihood stability and welfare promotion services for single-parent families.

Failure to fulfill child support obligations seriously threatens children's right to survival and healthy growth, yet many single-parent families are still not receiving child support payments.

There is only one Child Support Enforcement Agency nationwide, located in Seoul, making it difficult for single-parent families in Busan to access services.

To improve this situation, Busan City signed a business agreement in January this year?the first among local governments?with the Korea Healthy Family Promotion Agency (which operates the Child Support Enforcement Agency) to support child support enforcement. Additionally, in September last year, the city partially amended the "Ordinance on Support for Single-Parent Families in Busan" and has been working to establish and operate the Single-Parent Family Support Project Group.

The project group is a separate dedicated organization formed within the Busan Healthy Family Support Center.

This group provides various customized services for single-parent families, including ▲child support enforcement counseling ▲supervised visitation services ▲comprehensive information for single-parent families ▲parent education ▲self-help groups ▲family programs.

Starting in May, on designated weekdays each week, the project group plans to implement "visiting counseling services" that provide child support enforcement counseling and comprehensive information at partner institutions: Dongnae-gu Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center (Wednesdays), Saha-gu Healthy Family Support Center (Thursdays), and Haeundae-gu Healthy Family Support Center (Fridays), thereby improving service accessibility for single-parent families.

Jeon Hye-sook, Director of the Women and Family Bureau of Busan City, said, "We hope this project will contribute to improving the quality of life for single-parent families and the healthy growth of their children," adding, "We will continue to strengthen child support enforcement services through organic cooperation with related organizations."

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