Choi Hojung, Seoul City Council Chair, "Additional Welfare Points for Public Servants Raising Children"

Agenda Submitted to the Association of City and Provincial Council Chairpersons
"Alleviating Burden by Allocating Childcare Points"

Choi Hojung, Chairperson of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, proposed a revision to the 'Local Government Budget Formulation Operation Standards' to alleviate the economic burden on local government employees. The main point is to separately allocate and support childcare points for employees raising children within local governments.

On the 20th, Chairperson Choi submitted a 'Proposal for Revision of Local Government Budget Formulation Operation Standards' containing this content as an agenda item at the 1st Extraordinary Meeting of the Association of Chairpersons of City and Provincial Councils held in Gwangju.

The core of the proposal is to allow local governments to separately allocate and support childcare points for employees raising children in addition to the existing welfare points for public officials. Chairperson Choi pointed out that local government employees lack continuous financial support related to child-rearing, aside from the one-time childbirth congratulatory points.

She emphasized that even if local governments want to allocate welfare points at their discretion, they are hindered by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's 'Local Government Budget Formulation Operation Standards,' making improvement necessary. According to the city council, local governments cannot allocate related welfare points at their discretion for local public officials.

If the agenda is adopted by the Association of Chairpersons of City and Provincial Councils, the proposal will be forwarded to the government and the National Assembly.

Chairperson Choi said, "Considering the reality that child-rearing costs continue to increase after childbirth, continuous support measures are needed to reduce the child-rearing burden on local government employees as well. I will actively propose institutional improvements to expand the autonomy of local government employee welfare systems so that the economic burden of employees raising children can be reduced even a little."

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