Gyeonggi Province and Gyeonggi Office of Education Join Forces to Identify Welfare Blind Spot Households

Oh Byung-kwon, Gyeonggi Province Administrative Deputy Governor (left), is taking a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement with Kim Song-mi, the Second Deputy Superintendent of Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, on the 10th.

Gyeonggi Province and the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education have joined hands to identify welfare blind spots.

On the 10th, Gyeonggi Province announced that Oh Byeong-kwon, the First Deputy Governor of Gyeonggi Province, and Kim Song-mi, the Second Deputy Superintendent of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, signed a business agreement at the provincial office titled “Cooperation to Identify Crisis Households in Welfare Blind Spots and Participation in Gyeonggi Hope Bodeumi.”

According to the agreement, school staff working in schools across the province will serve as “Gyeonggi Hope Bodeumi” and take on the role of reporting residents in welfare blind spots to the emergency welfare hotline, emergency welfare call center (120-0), Gyeonggi Bok G Talk (KakaoTalk channel), and the emergency welfare call center website (gg.go.kr/welfarehotline).

Through “Gyeonggi Hope Bodeumi,” Gyeonggi Province will support livelihood, housing, and medical expenses for neighbors in difficulty who are reported to the emergency welfare crisis counseling hotline and qualify for existing welfare programs such as basic livelihood security, near-poverty class, and emergency welfare. Even if they do not qualify for existing welfare programs, the province plans to connect them to private sponsored welfare services as needed to resolve crisis situations.

To prevent a recurrence of the “Suwon Three Mothers Incident” and to guarantee welfare rights for residents in crisis, Gyeonggi Province is currently promoting public-private cooperation including ▲Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, posting promotional materials and education on identifying and reporting welfare blind spots ▲Gyeonggi Pharmaceutical Association, producing and distributing promotional stickers to pharmacies in the province ▲Real Estate Agents Association, distributing promotional materials to licensed real estate agents ▲Small Business Federation, website banners, flyers, and KakaoTalk promotions to members ▲Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, posting notices on the website and promoting via apps to parents ▲National Health Insurance Service Incheon-Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters, identifying and reporting during long-term care grade assessments ▲Korea Electric Power Corporation Gyeonggi Headquarters and Northern Gyeonggi Headquarters, identifying and reporting during electricity meter readings ▲Social welfare institutions and organizations, identifying and reporting during social welfare work ▲City gas companies, identifying and reporting during gas meter readings.

Oh Byeong-kwon, First Deputy Governor of Gyeonggi Province, said, “Gyeonggi Province is supporting a more detailed, wider, and stronger welfare blind spot identification support system through cooperation with related organizations and groups to eliminate welfare blind spots, but there are limits to public organizations alone, so the interest and cooperation of neighbors is crucial.” He urged, “If you find neighbors in difficulty around you, please actively participate as a ‘Gyeonggi Hope Bodeumi’ by reporting to the Gyeonggi emergency welfare crisis counseling hotline (010-4419-7722) or the Gyeonggi Call Center (031-120).”

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