Osan City Conducts Second Half Social Security Benefit Verification Survey

[Suwon Ilbo=Correspondent Seo Dong-young] Osan City will conduct a 'Second Half 2020 Social Security Benefit Verification Survey' through the end of the year to prevent welfare budget leakage and ensure appropriate benefit payments.

The city plans to adjust benefits by reflecting income and asset change data for approximately 584 basic livelihood security and basic pension benefit recipients.

The verification survey calculates welfare benefit amounts by reflecting income and asset data provided by major agencies such as the National Tax Service. Changed information is communicated to the individuals affected, and objections may be filed during a designated period, leading to reinvestigation.

Welfare programs funded through asset assessments require individuals to report changes in their income or assets. In cases where some reports were not submitted, a comprehensive reinvestigation will be conducted using public data to adjust welfare benefits accordingly.

Additionally, the city will establish a public-private cooperative system to conduct a 'comprehensive winter welfare blind spot discovery survey.'

Based on survey results, the city plans to actively identify welfare benefit discontinuations, socially vulnerable groups experiencing livelihood difficulties, and welfare blind spots to strengthen emergency support and private sector linkage assistance.

Meanwhile, as of November, among Osan City's approximately 230,000 residents, approximately 73,000 are welfare beneficiaries, accounting for 32.26% of the population. Among them, selective welfare beneficiaries subject to asset assessment across 13 projects number approximately 41,000, representing 17.98% of the population.