Four Special Cities Urge "Revision of Unreasonable Basic Property Amount Notice"

Statement Released for 'Expansion of Citizen Welfare'

Four Special Cities Issue Statement to Expand Citizen Welfare [Provided by Goyang City]

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] Goyang City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 14th that "in front of the main gate of the Sejong City Government Complex (Ministry of Health and Welfare), the mayors and city council chairs of four special-status cities jointly issued a 'Statement Urging the Revision of the Basic Property Amount Notice to Resolve the Discriminatory Treatment Against 4.5 Million Citizens of Special-Status Cities.'"

The statement reflected the citizens' wishes, saying, "Immediately revise the Basic Property Amount Notice to reflect the reality of special-status cities," and "Improve the unreasonable criteria for selecting welfare beneficiaries."

According to the city, although the citizens of the four special-status cities with populations of 1 million each have population, social, and economic scales and living standards similar to those of large cities, they have been classified as small and medium-sized cities when selecting welfare beneficiaries. As a result, their basic property amounts were set lower than those of large cities, causing them to experience unfairness such as reduced benefit amounts or exclusion from selection.

A special-status city refers to a large city with a population of over 1 million. To resolve the unreasonable system that applied the same regulations as small cities with populations under 30,000, it was classified as a different form of local government from metropolitan cities through the revision of the Local Autonomy Act last December.

On this day, the mayors and city council chairs of the four special-status cities stated, "We need to consider better measures for citizens who have been discriminated against by unreasonable systems," adding, "Revising the unreasonable welfare criteria will be the starting point."

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