Gurye-gun Accepts Applications for Public Interest Allowance for Farmers and Fishermen

Apply at your local Eup/Myeon office by February 23

Gurye-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will accept applications for the 2024 Farmers and Fishermen Public Interest Allowance from January 15 to February 23.

The Farmers and Fishermen Public Interest Allowance is a project that provides local currency to farmers and fishermen to create a sustainable agricultural and fishery environment.

[Photo by Gurye-gun]

Applicants must be business owners who registered their agricultural or fishery management entities before January 1, 2023, have an address in Jeollanam-do, and are actively engaged in agriculture or fishery.

Applications must be submitted with the required documents to the local town or township office by February 23.

Gurye-gun plans to verify the eligibility of applicants and conduct a review by the Public Interest Allowance Committee by March, and from April, provide local currency worth 600,000 KRW (Gurye Sarang Gift Certificates) to eligible recipients.

However, those whose comprehensive income excluding agriculture and fishery in the year before last (2022) was 37 million KRW or more, those who share residence with a public interest allowance recipient but have separated households, those who fraudulently received subsidies such as direct payments in 2023, and public officials or employees of public institutions are excluded from receiving the allowance.

Starting this year, if the recipient is temporarily unable to receive the allowance directly due to reasons such as hospitalization, a direct lineal ascendant or descendant or a household member may receive it on their behalf after confirmation by the town or township head.

An official from the county stated, “We expect that providing the Farmers and Fishermen Public Interest Allowance in Gurye Sarang Gift Certificates will greatly help stabilize the management of farmers and fishermen and revitalize the local economy,” and added, “We will do our best to promote the program so that no eligible farmer or fisherman misses applying.”

Meanwhile, Gurye-gun paid a total of 3.126 billion KRW in public interest allowances to 5,171 people in 2023 using Gurye Sarang Gift Certificates.

Gurye = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yuk Miseok hss79@asiae.co.kr

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