Gokseong-gun Hope Welfare Mobile Service Provides Customized Welfare Services for At-Risk Households

Providing Services Such as Laundry, Knife Sharpening, Mobile Bathing, and Agricultural Machinery Repair

[Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seonsik] Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Yu Geungi) announced on the 20th that through the 15th mobile Hope Welfare Service held on the 15th in Taepyeong Village, Jukgok-myeon, they discovered households in crisis and provided customized welfare services.

The Hope Welfare Mobile Service is a welfare policy that visits residents' living spaces to provide various services such as laundry, knife sharpening, mobile bathing, and agricultural machinery repair.

Despite the hot weather reaching 33 degrees Celsius that day, the service team did their best to resolve residents' inconveniences by providing various welfare services.

In particular, on that day, the integrated case manager of Gokseong-gun conducted intensive welfare counseling by visiting each household, discovering households in crisis and providing customized solutions.

A resident A of Taepyeong Village, Jukgok-myeon, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015 and was cured after surgery but recently experienced a recurrence of cancer.

With limited means and increasing burden due to medical expenses, they were going through difficult days. The integrated case manager of the Hope Welfare Mobile Service team discovered the household and immediately guided the recipient on the emergency welfare living expense support system and accepted the support application on site.

In addition, they linked the medical expense support service for adult cancer patients provided by the Health and Medical Center, enabling support of up to 3 million KRW annually for both insured and uninsured out-of-pocket expenses.

Furthermore, to alleviate long-term living and medical expense burdens, support for recipients of the National Basic Livelihood Security was also connected.

Gokseong-gun plans to establish an infinite care welfare service system that actively provides one-stop customized welfare services linking various public welfare services.

Through this, it is expected to provide a dense safety net welfare service without exclusion throughout the county.

An official from the county stated, “We will strive to proactively meet the welfare needs of vulnerable groups experiencing difficulties in welfare blind spots. We will also provide various services to general residents to enhance the welfare satisfaction of all county residents.”

Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seonsik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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