Gimhae City Partners with Post Office to Illuminate Welfare Blind Spots

Agreement Signed for 'Welfare Registered Mail Service'

Gimhae City in Gyeongnam Province and Gimhae Post Office will implement the ‘Welfare Registered Mail Project.’

The city and the post office signed an agreement on the 10th to work together to identify and support welfare blind spots.

According to the city, the Welfare Registered Mail Project is a program to find and verify recipients with unclear addresses or phone numbers from the list of candidates received from Happy e-um (Social Welfare Integrated Management Network) at the Eup/Myeon/Dong Administrative Welfare Centers, targeting households in welfare blind spots such as those with power or water cutoffs and overdue health insurance premiums.

Gimhae City, Gyeongnam, and Gimhae Post Office are taking a commemorative photo after signing an agreement for the 'Welfare Registered Mail Project.'
[Photo by Gimhae City Hall]

The city extracts the recipients and sends welfare information notices by registered mail, after which postal delivery workers visit the target households to collect basic information.

The post office provides the collected data to the city, which then conducts a second investigation based on the information.

The delivery workers visit the requested target households to observe whether there are long-term absences or actual residence by checking for mail such as reminders or seizures in the mailbox, and if the recipient is present, they briefly inquire about living conditions and gather related information.

The Eup/Myeon/Dong Administrative Welfare Centers receive the collected information and select households for visits based on the data to plan counseling and support.

Gimhae City and Gimhae Post Office will promote the Welfare Registered Mail Project targeting 300 households monthly from April to December, totaling 2,700 households, and plan to decide on expansion after evaluating the results.

Lim Jutaek, Director of the Welfare Bureau, said, “We will strengthen the social safety net by utilizing a citizen-centered postal network and proactively identify at-risk households with unknown residences to eliminate blind spots. We will work together with Gimhae Post Office to provide high-quality welfare services that citizens can feel.”

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