Why Did Gangdong-gu Integrated Investigation Management Organization Increase by 3 Teams?

Lee Su-hee, Mayor of Gangdong District

Enhancing Efficiency of Customized Welfare Support for Residents through Reorganization of Integrated Survey Management

Operation Method Changed from Two Teams, Integrated Survey Team and Integrated Management Team, to Three Teams: Integrated Survey Management Teams 1, 2, and 3

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Gangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Soo-hee) is reorganizing and operating the integrated survey management organization to provide customized welfare support for residents.

The district had been operating the tasks of investigating new welfare beneficiaries and verifying changes through the Integrated Survey Team and the Integrated Management Team. In response to the increased workload due to the relaxation of selection criteria for welfare systems aimed at universal welfare, the district reorganized the system into Integrated Survey Management Teams 1, 2, and 3 in January last year.

Along with this, as local government projects such as income compensation projects, asset-building projects, and housing welfare that support basic living guarantees have significantly increased, the district made additional organizational adjustments by clearly defining the roles of the three teams to prevent cases of exclusion from welfare benefits or inadequate support in advance and to provide more meticulous welfare services.

Integrated Survey Management Team 1 is responsible for overseeing investigations of low-income groups such as basic living recipients; Team 2 oversees verification investigations of welfare beneficiaries; and Team 3 manages investigations related to pension benefits, local government support, and other support projects.

The district established an annual survey plan and proactively laid the foundation for a flexible workforce operation according to the volume of surveys in the first and second halves of the year, enabling prompt investigations and customized welfare provision.

Additionally, to provide secure welfare, the district plans to focus on ensuring that essential benefits reach those in need through basic pension investigations for early income compensation due to the retirement of the baby boomer generation and the increase in elderly population, asset-building projects funded by local government welfare budgets, the Seoul Safe Income pilot project, and the Seoul-type paid sick leave project.

Furthermore, to discover and support welfare blind spots, the district was the first local government to enact and operate a reward ordinance for reporting in 2021, and it is doing its best to support low-income residents through the ‘Emergency Welfare Call for Crisis Households.’

Lee Soo-hee, Mayor of Gangdong-gu, said, “We expect that the reorganization of the Integrated Survey Management Team will contribute to providing secure welfare for residents,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to discover welfare projects to eliminate welfare blind spots.”

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