Geumcheon-gu Supports Winter Blankets for 'Dolbom SOS' Users to Prepare for Winter Cold

Providing 'Dolbom SOS' for residents in urgent and temporary care needs
Winter blankets support for 100 low-income users of 'Dolbom SOS'

Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yoo Seong-hoon) announced that it will provide winter blankets to 100 cold wave vulnerable individuals receiving the ‘Geumcheon Neighborhood Care SOS Service’ (hereinafter referred to as Care SOS).

The support targets 100 people among Care SOS users, including recipients under the 「National Basic Livelihood Security Act」, near-poverty class, low-income registered disabled persons, and single-parent families under the 「Single-Parent Family Support Act」.

The district supports seasonal items during extreme heat and cold seasons every year to help vulnerable residents among Care SOS users maintain their basic body temperature even in midsummer and midwinter.

This winter item is a fleece-like microfiber blanket, which will be delivered to the target households by the local community center’s Care Manager or the providing institution.

Care SOS is a service that provides ▲ temporary home care ▲ short-term facility care ▲ accompaniment support ▲ meal delivery ▲ residential convenience (cleaning, disinfection, repair and maintenance, laundry) to residents who urgently need care due to sudden illness, accident, discharge after surgery, or absence of caregivers.

The service is available to middle-aged people aged 50 and over, seniors, and disabled persons aged 6 and above, and households with median income at or below 100% can use the service free of charge.

Yoo Seong-hoon, Mayor of Geumcheon-gu, said, “We will strive to promptly provide care services to residents in urgent need of emergency care against the cold wave so that they can have a warm winter.”

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