Suwon City Conducting Emergency Actual Conditions Survey on High-Risk Crisis Households

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Suwon City will conduct an "Emergency Actual Conditions Survey on High-Risk Crisis Households" through the end of next month to discover and support households in welfare blind spots.

The emergency actual conditions survey on high-risk crisis households, which Suwon City began on the 2nd, is a project to find crisis households that are difficult to discover through the existing welfare blind spot discovery system and provide customized support.

The city established an emergency actual conditions survey plan to discover and support high-risk crisis households after a North Korean defector mother and child died from hunger in a rental apartment in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, at the end of July.

Target households include those with common area maintenance fees in arrears for three months or longer, and households predicted to be at high risk (such as households with zero acknowledged income) among recipients of specific benefits (basic pension, disability pension, child allowance, etc.).

Emergency support including livelihood and housing benefits will be provided to crisis households. Customized services will also be provided through linkage with public and private welfare resources. Households with complex issues will be designated as integrated case management targets and managed accordingly.

Plans are in place to investigate predicted high-risk households using the Social Security Information System (Happiness e-eum). The city will contact target recipients by phone or visit their residences to understand their situations, and guide households in need of help to receive welfare services. For apartment complexes where maintenance fee arrears information cannot be confirmed through the social security system, the city will request cooperation from management offices.

From March to August, the city conducted a survey on low-income single-person middle-aged households in welfare blind spots and discovered and supported 367 households in need of help. During the same period, a comprehensive survey was conducted targeting households with four or more children, and assistance was provided to 196 households.

Im Yu-jeong, head of the Welfare Cooperation Division at Suwon City, said, "We will actively discover and assist crisis households to prevent unfortunate cases like the death of the North Korean defector mother and child. If you discover neighbors in difficult circumstances, please inform the Dong Administrative Welfare Center or the City and District offices."