Civil Servant Disaster Compensation Service Upgraded... 60 Years of Industrial Accident Insurance Expertise Added

Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service and Government Employees Pension Service MOU

The 60 years of expertise in industrial accident insurance has further enhanced the quality of disaster compensation services for public officials.

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (Director Park Jong-gil) announced on the 17th that it signed a business agreement with the Government Employees Pension Service at Korea University SK Future Hall to develop the disaster compensation system.

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service and the Government Employees Pension Service agreed to further develop the industrial accident compensation system and the public officials' disaster compensation system through mutual cooperation.

At the business agreement held on the 17th at Korea University SK Future Hall, Park Jong-gil, Director of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (right), and Kim Dong-geuk, Director of the Government Employees Pension Service, are showing the agreement document.

Since 2017, the two organizations have already signed a business agreement to expand rehabilitation services for injured public officials and support their return to work, providing integrated rehabilitation services to injured public officials such as police officers and firefighters through the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service's direct hospitals.

This agreement goes a step further from the 2017 agreement, encompassing broad cooperation on streamlining the review of medical care benefits, linking rehabilitation services, and rationalizing disaster compensation benefits and systems.

At the signing ceremony, Director Park Jong-gil of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service said, "This agreement will be an opportunity for the sustainable development of the social insurance system," and added, "We will strengthen joint research and cooperation in various fields."

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