The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission: "Including Unverified Estimated Income in Income Assessment Amount is Illegal"

Cancellation Decision on 'Allowance Payment Suspension' for Families of National Merit Recipients

An administrative adjudication ruled that including estimated income in the income assessment amount without concrete evidence is illegal.

On the 5th, the Central Administrative Adjudication Committee under the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission canceled the decision to suspend the payment of the living adjustment allowance by including estimated income in the income assessment amount despite no confirmation of additional or concealed income of the subject.

A, a bereaved family member of a national merit recipient, had been receiving the living adjustment allowance monthly from the Veterans Affairs Office since 2018. However, in this year's living standard survey, an estimated income of 770,000 KRW was included in the income assessment amount of her cohabiting son, B, and since it exceeded the recognized income amount for a two-person household, the living adjustment allowance was not paid. B is 60 years old, physically disabled, and his financial transaction records show expenditures from amounts received from his mother and sibling.

The Central Administrative Adjudication Committee judged that it was difficult to consider that B had additional income, and therefore it was not appropriate to include estimated income in the income assessment amount. Accordingly, it decided that the Veterans Affairs Office's disposition to withhold the living adjustment allowance from A was illegal.

Park Jong-min, Vice Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and Chairman of the Central Administrative Adjudication Committee, said, “The application of laws and regulations must be based on clear facts,” and added, “We will carefully examine whether there are any other laws or systems being misapplied.”

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