Incheon City Conducts Full Survey of 552 Low-Income Households That Did Not Apply for Emergency Living Support Funds

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Incheon City will conduct a door-to-door survey starting from the 1st of next month targeting approximately 552 low-income households that have not applied for the temporary emergency living support fund.

The city provided emergency living support funds to basic livelihood security recipients and near-poverty groups experiencing economic difficulties due to COVID-19 for one month starting June 29. Through applications and registrations, local currency was distributed differentially to 123,548 households out of a total of 124,313 households (99.4%), amounting to a total of 56.8 billion KRW.

However, the city could not confirm the reasons for non-application for about 552 households among the beneficiary households, so it decided to conduct a full door-to-door survey for these households. This is a measure to proactively identify and protect vulnerable households within the region.

Through the full survey, the city plans to check the living conditions and safety of these households and promptly provide necessary services such as public welfare benefits, local welfare projects (SOS Emergency Support, Didimdol Stable Income), and linkage to private resources according to the individual needs of crisis families requiring protection.

Earlier, to stabilize the lives of low-income crisis families, the city relaxed the selection criteria for 'SOS Emergency Welfare' and 'Didimdol Stable Income' starting last month.

SOS Emergency Welfare is a system that supports living expenses, medical expenses, and housing costs for households facing sudden crises such as job loss, illness, or death of the main income earner, by relaxing the property selection criteria to below 300 million KRW.

Didimdol Stable Income is a system that provides minimum living expenses and childbirth/funeral expenses to non-beneficiary poor households that do not meet the National Basic Livelihood Security System selection criteria, expanding the eligible households by relaxing the selection criteria to below 50% of the median income.

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