Gokseong Takes Initiative to Eliminate Welfare Blind Spots by Intensively Identifying At-Risk Households

Published 28 Jul.2023 15:39(KST)

Survey on Vulnerable Households in Livelihood, Medical Care, Housing, Employment, and Health

Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Lee Sang-cheol) announced that it conducted a comprehensive survey on living crisis environments for 1,967 vulnerable households over six months from February to July.

The survey involved 11 eup/myeon welfare teams and the Gokseong-gun Population Policy Division’s integrated case managers, who focused on identifying vulnerable households expected to face difficulties in livelihood, medical care, housing, employment, and health.

[Photo by Gokseong-gun]

The survey targets were extracted through the Social Security Information System (Happiness Link) and selected based on 39 types of crisis information, including households with power, water, or gas cutoffs, overdue health insurance or communication bills, financial delinquencies, basic livelihood security recipients, and those who were rejected for emergency welfare applications.

The task force conducted a first round of non-face-to-face surveys via phone contact with the identified crisis households, followed by a second round of on-site visits to provide welfare counseling, thoroughly assessing the welfare needs and reasons for crisis of the subjects.

Based on the findings, public support such as emergency welfare assistance and basic livelihood security guarantees were provided to 102 households, while 1,808 households that did not receive public support were offered welfare counseling and other public-private welfare services, achieving significant results.

Additionally, depending on the case, various welfare resources such as the Employment Welfare Center, the Integrated Support Center for Low-Income Finance, the Korea Legal Aid Corporation, and the Gokseong-gun Mental Health Welfare Center were linked and supported. For those with complex needs or problems, they were selected as integrated case management subjects to continuously receive customized welfare services.

Meanwhile, the county plans to continue identifying vulnerable groups in the welfare blind spots in the second half of the year to achieve zero crisis households.

A county official stated, “By discovering many crisis households this time and providing welfare services, we were able to take a step closer to the happiness of our residents. We will continue to actively work to identify welfare blind spots and resolve the crisis situations of subjects through customized welfare services.”