Yongin City Provides Scholarships to Basic Living Allowance Recipients and Near-Poor Households

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun] Yongin City announced on the 19th that it will select 150 middle and high school students and university students and provide them with scholarships.

Since 2017, the city has annually utilized its self-support fund to select middle and high school students and university students with excellent academic performance from households of basic living allowance recipients and legally designated near-poor households, and provided them with scholarships. Until last year, scholarships totaling 550 million won were provided to 750 recipients.

This year, the city plans to select 150 students in total—60 middle school students, 60 high school students, and 30 university students—and provide scholarships of 300,000 won for middle and high school students and 500,000 won for university students.

Any middle or high school student or university student who is a basic living allowance recipient or legally designated near-poor household resident within the city can apply at their respective administrative welfare centers from the 23rd to the 27th. Recipients will be selected after review by the Self-Support Fund Management Deliberation Committee, and scholarships will be distributed starting next month.

A city official stated, "The city has been operating the self-support fund since 2004 to promote living stability and support self-reliance among low-income residents. Using this fund, we are conducting various projects including scholarships and social insurance premium support," and added, "We will carefully ensure that scholarships are provided to students who truly need them."