Biological Mother Abandoned Newborn and Collected 20 Million Won in Childcare Allowance Over 7 Years

Request for Investigation Due to Absence from Elementary School Preliminary Assembly
Investigation Hampered by Inconsistent Abandonment Locations
Over 20 Million Won Received in Child and Childcare Allowances

In Ulsan, it was revealed that a biological mother abandoned her child when the baby was about 100 days old and concealed this fact for seven years while collecting monthly childcare allowances.

According to Yonhap News on the 23rd, the Ulsan Police Agency sent Ms. A to the prosecution without detention on charges of violating the Child Welfare Act (abandonment, etc.). The police applied for an arrest warrant for Ms. A, but it was dismissed by the court.

During the police investigation, Ms. A admitted to abandoning the child after giving birth in July 2016, but her statements regarding the location of abandonment were inconsistent.

Accordingly, the police searched and conducted inquiries at the locations mentioned by Ms. A but did not achieve any significant results. It is known that the police investigation is facing difficulties as they have to rely solely on the biological mother's testimony.

The police also checked with child protection agencies to confirm whether there had been any abandonment reports at the time, but it was found that no special reports had been made.

It was investigated that Ms. A fraudulently received about 20 million won in government child allowance and childcare allowance until December last year. The childcare allowance was up to 200,000 won per month (based on the time of birth) from birth, and the child allowance was received monthly at 100,000 won since September 2018.

On January 4 of this year, when Ms. A's daughter did not appear at a preliminary gathering at an elementary school in Ulsan, the school requested the Jung-gu district to locate her. When Jung-gu could not locate her, they requested a police investigation a week later, which eventually led to Ms. A's arrest.

The local government in charge, Jung-gu, reportedly stated that they visited Ms. A's residence once in 2020 but did not detect any unusual circumstances. Also, in January this year when the police investigation began, Jung-gu decided to identify the fraudulent receipt situation, stop the allowance payments, and notified Ms. A of the recovery.

Childcare Allowance Wrongly Paid Over 10 Billion Won in the Last 5 Years... Recovery Rate Less Than Half

Meanwhile, it was found that over 10 billion won in childcare allowances were wrongly paid over five years, but the amount recovered was only in the 3 billion won range. The scale of childcare allowances paid to parents who abused their children is not even known.

According to the 'Childcare Allowance Fraudulent Receipt Reasons and Recovery Decision and Payment Status' submitted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to Representative Lee Jong-sung of the Future United Party, 10.661 billion won was wrongly paid from 2015 to 2019.

The reasons for fraudulent receipt identified by the Ministry of Health and Welfare include ▲ payments made to children who stayed overseas for more than 90 days (implemented in 2016) and ▲ payments made to deceased children.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.