▲ Ministry of Health and Welfare
The number of people identified and supported through the government's welfare blind spot detection system has increased 44-fold over the past decade since the system's introduction, data shows.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare released the current status of identification and support through the welfare blind spot detection system.
Following the "Songpa three mother-daughter" incident in 2014, the government began operating a welfare blind spot detection system in late 2015 and has since expanded the scope of crisis-related information linked to the system.
The number of individuals identified as being in welfare blind spots grew from 110,000 in 2015 to 1.37 million last year.
During the same period, the number of those who received support increased from 20,000 to 880,000.
The support rate rose from 16.0% to 63.9%, marking the highest level since the introduction of the detection system.
By service type, 298,000 people received public services such as basic livelihood security benefits, while 579,000 people received private sector support.
Even for households that did not meet the criteria for public benefits, the government actively connected them with private welfare services to provide assistance.
By region, the number of identified crisis households was highest in Gyeonggi (273,000), followed by Seoul (244,000), Busan (112,000), South Gyeongsang (99,000), and Incheon (81,000).
The support rate for welfare services relative to the number of identified individuals was highest in Sejong at 94.8%, followed by South Chungcheong (89.8%), Incheon (81%), Ulsan (80.1%), and Jeju (75%).
The Ministry of Health and Welfare provides local governments with 47 types of crisis information obtained from 21 institutions, supporting them in identifying crisis households by reflecting local characteristics.
The Ministry plans to conduct five rounds of crisis household identification this year.
In particular, for approximately 3,000 individuals who were identified as targets for support by April of this year but whose cases remain unresolved due to reasons such as being unable to locate them, the Ministry plans to cooperate with local governments to conduct home visits within this month.
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