Pyeongtaek City to Support Senior Citizens' Transportation Expenses Starting Next Year

Annual Limit of 240,000 KRW

Pyeongtaek City in Gyeonggi Province will support transportation expenses for senior citizens starting next year.

On the 26th, Pyeongtaek City announced plans to provide transportation expenses of up to 240,000 KRW annually to seniors aged 70 and over beginning next year.

At the 'Senior Citizen Transportation Expense Support Project Business Agreement Ceremony' held at Pyeongtaek City Hall on the 26th, Pyeongtaek Mayor Jeong Jang-seon (fourth from the right) and other attendees are holding up the agreement document.
[Photo by Pyeongtaek City]

The city plans to support transportation expenses up to 60,000 KRW per quarter and 240,000 KRW annually for seniors using metropolitan, city, village buses, and demand-responsive buses (Ttok Bus) within the jurisdiction. The transportation expense support will be provided by reimbursing actual costs quarterly when eligible recipients use the Gyeonggi-do senior preferential transportation card called 'G-PASS' to pay for public transportation out of pocket.

As of June, there are a total of 50,826 seniors aged 70 and over in the Pyeongtaek area, and the city estimates that the annual budget will amount to approximately 3.3 billion KRW, considering the average monthly public transportation usage rate of this age group.

Meanwhile, to implement the project, the city signed a business agreement with local agricultural and livestock cooperatives at the City Hall External Cooperation Office on the same day and plans to start issuing transportation cards at agricultural and livestock cooperative counters from October.

Jung Jang-seon, mayor of Pyeongtaek City, said, "We have prepared this transportation expense support project to create an environment where seniors can move more conveniently," adding, "We will thoroughly prepare with related organizations to ensure there are no setbacks in the full-scale implementation next year."

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