Daejeon City Offers 15%+@ Cashback on Ontong Daejeon for Transportation Welfare Recipients

Provided by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City announced on the 18th that starting next month, it will provide a 15% Ontong Daejeon cashback benefit to transportation welfare recipients, including those aged 65 and older and persons with disabilities.

The key point is that holders of the transportation welfare card will receive a cashback of 15%, which includes the basic 10% plus an additional 5% when paying with Ontong Daejeon. Furthermore, if the 3% cashback applied to traditional markets from this month is added, the actual cashback received can increase up to 18%.

This initiative is aimed at supporting the consumption activities of transportation welfare recipients with limited spending power and promoting the use of public transportation.

The eligible recipients are Ontong Daejeon users who have been issued transportation welfare cards and are registered residents of Daejeon aged 65 or older, persons with disabilities, national merit recipients, or parents with multiple children.

However, the additional cashback will be provided only until the budget is exhausted and is available only when both the transportation welfare card and Ontong Daejeon are issued and used.

Among the eligible recipients, Ontong Daejeon users who have not yet been issued a transportation welfare card can bring documents proving their eligibility for transportation welfare and visit a Hana Bank branch in Daejeon to receive the card free of charge.

The transportation welfare card is a transportation card issued to facilitate free rides on the Daejeon Urban Railway for eligible free-ride recipients such as residents of Daejeon aged 65 or older, persons with disabilities, national merit recipients, and parents with multiple children, by adding a free-ride function.

Currently, there are approximately 306,000 eligible recipients for this card, of whom 30% are using the transportation welfare card. On the 20th of last month, an integrated card combining Ontong Daejeon and the transportation welfare card was also launched.

The city plans to provide 2,000 Hana Money points when converting existing transportation welfare cards to the integrated Ontong Daejeon-Transportation Welfare card to promote its use.

Ko Hyun-deok, Director of the Job and Economy Bureau of the city, emphasized, “Starting this month, an additional 3% cashback will be provided when using Ontong Daejeon at traditional markets. Adding the 5% cashback separately received by transportation welfare cardholders and the basic 10% cashback, the total cashback that can actually be received when using traditional markets can increase up to 18%.”

Meanwhile, in the age-based usage status of Ontong Daejeon, 60% of the total amount is used by people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. In contrast, those aged 65 and older show an average usage rate of less than 10%, confirming that this age group is relatively excluded from the benefits of Ontong Daejeon.

This was the background for the city to provide additional cashback to transportation welfare recipients.

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