Gwangju City to Distribute '100,000 Won per Person' Daily Recovery Support Fund Starting from the 17th

Applications accepted until the 28th of next month... First week of applications follows 'Birth Year Last Digit' 5-Day System

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Gwangju Metropolitan City will begin distributing the daily recovery support fund to all citizens starting from the 17th.

On the 5th, Gwangju City announced that as of December 1st last year, it will provide 100,000 KRW per person as a daily recovery support fund to citizens registered as residents in Gwangju, foreigners registered at their place of stay, or those who have reported their residence.

Starting on the 7th, payments will begin with direct deposits to accounts of basic livelihood security recipients, and from the 17th, online point charging for credit and debit cards and on-site distribution of prepaid Win-Win cards at administrative welfare centers will be conducted.

The application period runs until the 28th of next month. To prevent congestion during the first week of applications from the 17th to the 21st, a five-day rotation system based on the last digit of the applicant’s birth year will be implemented for both online and offline applications.

In preparation for this, on the same day, a briefing session on the status of preparations for the daily recovery support fund distribution was held, chaired by Deputy Mayor Kim Jonghyo.

Attended by the Director of Citizen Safety, heads of six departments from the main office task force, and heads of the five autonomous districts’ general departments, the meeting shared the preparation status to ensure smooth distribution of the support fund and discussed measures to minimize citizen inconvenience such as congestion prevention strategies.

To ensure smooth distribution, a task force consisting of 15 departments divided into four teams?overall operations, system operations, administrative support, and monitoring?led by the Deputy Mayor, has been activated to thoroughly prepare in advance.

So far, the task force has worked on ▲establishing detailed operational guidelines by payment method ▲promoting business agreements with 15 banks and card companies ▲setting up a dedicated call center ▲building an online application website ▲constructing payment information for direct deposits to basic livelihood security recipients’ accounts ▲and promoting the support fund through foreigner communities to facilitate convenient receipt of the fund by citizens.

Additionally, through ▲checking the readiness of dedicated counters ▲monitoring on-site congestion and compliance with quarantine measures, the task force plans to intensively conduct on-site monitoring activities before and after the start of distribution to promptly address any shortcomings.

Each autonomous district has also formed a task force led by the deputy district mayor to ensure thorough preparation by ▲hiring and deploying auxiliary personnel ▲setting up dedicated counters at 97 administrative welfare centers ▲and promoting at the community level using neighborhood leaders.

Deputy Mayor Kim Jonghyo stated, “Although daily recovery has temporarily paused and many citizens are facing a difficult and exhausting new year, I hope that the daily recovery support fund will help everyone have a warm Lunar New Year holiday. While there will be challenges on the front lines alongside quarantine duties, I ask everyone to do their best so that many citizens can receive the support fund before the Lunar New Year holiday.”

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