Automatic Enrollment for Residents... Uiryeong County Residents' Safety Insurance Even More 'Reliable' This Year

From Agricultural Machinery Accidents to COVID-19 Coverage

Uiryeong County Office, Gyeongnam.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Uiryeong-gun, Gyeongnam Province, will further expand the coverage of the ‘Citizen Safety Insurance’ for residents who suffer damages from unpredictable safety accidents in daily life this year.

The Citizen Safety Insurance is operated by the county directly paying premiums to the Korea Local Finance Association, which then pays insurance benefits to the residents.

This year, the county will increase the insurance coverage for agricultural machinery accidents from 20 million KRW to 30 million KRW and provide the same amount for injury death and injury disability caused by agricultural machinery accidents.

The insurance for ‘death caused by infectious diseases,’ which is implemented by only about 20% of local governments nationwide, will continue to be offered this year as well.

Last year, one person benefited from injury death due to agricultural machinery accidents, and three people in 2020. Two residents who died from COVID-19 infectious disease last year and this year are expected to receive insurance payments.

The Citizen Safety Insurance is a type of social security system automatically subscribed to by all Uiryeong residents, implemented since 2018 to ensure that residents who suffer damages from various accidents can maintain a minimum stable livelihood.

It covers 28 types of incidents including death and disability from natural disasters, explosions, fires, collapses, injury death from public transportation use, hit-and-run and uninsured vehicle injury death and disability, and death from infectious diseases.

This year, five additional coverages were added: injury death and disability from gas accidents, treatment costs for accidents in silver zones, and compensation for aftereffects of blood donation.

The Uiryeong-gun office stated that the insurance is designed to prepare for the large-scale spread of COVID-19 and frequent agricultural machinery accidents in rural areas, and that the infectious disease insurance coverage and 30 million KRW insurance payment for agricultural machinery death accidents rank among the top customized social security systems nationwide.

County Governor Oh Taewan said, “By expanding the coverage and raising the limits of the Citizen Safety Insurance, which all residents are enrolled in, the safety measures for residents have become stronger,” and added, “We will strengthen the establishment of a detailed living safety net that prioritizes residents.”

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