The plan to utilize the ‘4th Disaster Support Fund’ has been confirmed. Two million people, including street vendors, freelance workers, and corporate taxi drivers, will be added.
This is Han Se-hyun.
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At high-level party, government, and office meetings, the focus was on’expansion of support targets’ and’increase of the amount of support’.
[이낙연/더불어민주당 대표 : 더 넓게 더 두텁게 더 신속하게, 그 세 가지 원칙에 충실하게 추경안의 골격이 마련된 것 같습니다.]
First, it was decided to add special employment/freelance workers, corporate taxi drivers, etc., which were excluded from the application, to the target of support.
Over 40,000 street vendors and temporary daily workers receive 500,000 won each in the name of livelihood support.
The standard for supporting small business owners from’annual sales of 400 million won or less’ is raised to a maximum of 1 billion won, and electricity bills are also reduced.
In addition, special labor scholarships are provided to college students who have difficulties due to their parents’ unemployment.
This is expected to increase the total number of applications by an additional 2 million.
In addition, it was decided to reflect the total amount of financial resources necessary for the purchase and vaccination of the corona vaccine for 79 million people.
The financial resources of 19,500 billion won are an additional 15 trillion won, and the already confirmed budget is 4.5 trillion won.
The people’s strength was “a trick to use Narat money for elections,” and showed a sharp response.
[윤희석/국민의힘 대변인 : 공교롭게도 4차 재난지원금은 보궐선거 9일 전에 지급된다고 합니다. 나랏돈을 선거에 이용하려는 정부·여당의 속임수를 단호히 막아야 합니다.]
The Democratic Party plans to submit the supplementary bill to the National Assembly after a resolution at the State Council the day after tomorrow (2nd), and then process it at the plenary session on the 18th of next month.
(Video coverage: Kim Heung-ki, video editing: Choi Hye-young)