Anyang City to Accept Applications for 'Gyeonggi-Type Family Care Allowance' from Next Month

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Yoo Je-seong] Anyang City announced on the 28th that it will begin accepting applications for the ‘Gyeonggi-Type Family Care Allowance’ starting from next month.

The Gyeonggi-Type Family Care Allowance is a program that provides stipends to care providers when childcare gaps occur due to dual-income parents or other circumstances in households with children aged 24-36 months and with household incomes at or below 150% of the median income standard. Care providers can be relatives within four degrees of kinship, such as grandparents, or neighboring residents.

Gyeonggi Province and the city will each bear 50% of the project costs.

After completing mandatory education, if a care provider cares for children for at least 40 hours per month, they can receive 300,000 won monthly for one child, 450,000 won for two children, and up to 600,000 won for three children. If there are four or more children, support for up to two care providers is available.

Applicants must be households where both caregivers (father or mother) and children have household registration in Anyang City and have childcare gaps due to dual-income work or similar circumstances.

Children must be South Korean nationals with resident registration numbers, and households receiving government childcare service support are excluded.

Starting this year, a new income standard of 150% of the median income threshold will be applied.

The application period runs from February 1 to 15, and caregivers can apply through the Gyeonggi Civil Affairs 24 website (gg24.gg.go.kr) by preparing a power of attorney from the care provider and documents proving childcare gaps.

The city plans to select recipients after reviewing their eligibility and begin disbursing allowances starting in March.

Lee Nan-young, Director of the Child Welfare Division, said, “This is a practical childcare support system where local communities work together to fill in-home childcare gaps,” and added, “We expect it will help ease parental childcare burdens and create an environment conducive to raising children.”