First Implementation This Year: 'Gyeonggi-do Delivery Workers' Industrial Accident Insurance Support'... Total 2,747 Enrolled

90% of Workers' Industrial Accident Insurance Premiums Supported for Up to 1 Year... Retroactive Application from January

'Support for Industrial Accident Insurance for Delivery Workers' Poster [Gyeonggi-do]

[Asia Economy Reporter La Young-chul] Gyeonggi Province has concluded the 'Delivery Workers' Industrial Accident Insurance Support Project,' which was introduced nationwide for the first time this year.

According to the province on the 19th, as a result of recruitment conducted in three phases from April this year, a total of 2,747 applicants (Phase 1: 841, Phase 2: 1,723, Phase 3: 183) exceeded the support target of 2,000 people.

Among the Phase 3 applicants, 48% (88 people) were new enrollees, and 21.3% (39 people) did not know whether they were enrolled in industrial accident insurance. The reasons for application were 33.9% (62 people) personal desire and 50.3% (92 people) employer suggestion.

The province supports 90% of the industrial accident insurance premiums paid by workers engaged in food delivery and quick services within the province for up to one year, retroactively applied from January this year.

After verifying enrollment and payment details with the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service and the National Health Insurance Service, support funds will be paid to each individual, with the payment scheduled for the end of December.

Applicants and employers must make payments by the 10th of each month, the deadline for the four major insurance premium payments.

In particular, promotion was also conducted focusing on the fact that, due to strengthened requirements after July this year, enrollment has effectively become mandatory, and on the enforcement of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act starting next year.

Kim Jong-gu, Director of the Labor Bureau, stated, "We expect this to greatly help prevent accidents and protect delivery workers who were excluded from the social safety net, as well as restore their self-esteem and improve awareness as professionals."

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