Eun-kyung Jeong "Push to strengthen retirement income security... Expand local, essential, and public medical care."

Minister of Health and Welfare Jeong Eun-kyung announced that she would support the low-income class by reorganizing the income security system and strengthen retirement income security.

Minister Jeong said this in his opening remarks at the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee's audit of the Ministry of Health and Welfare held at the National Assembly on the 7th, saying, "As the population structure continues to change, various policy demands are arising across social security, including care, medical care, and pensions."

He emphasized, “We will further strengthen the social safety mat and establish integrated community care in the field,” and “We will provide more support to the low-income class by establishing a more detailed income security system, and we will also prepare a plan to strengthen multi-layered retirement income security.”

Minister Jeong also mentioned public concerns about medical disparities between regions and gaps in essential medical care.

Minister Jeong said, “To protect the lives and health of the people, we will develop the National University Hospital into a regional base hospital and expand regional, essential, and public medical care.”

Separately, he added, "We will support the recovery and growth of future generations, including children and youth, and also promote health and welfare artificial intelligence (AX) and bio innovation."

In the subsequent work report, Kim Kook-il, head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, again mentioned the plan to provide deep support for the basic pension, focusing on low-income groups, but said, "We will discuss long-term reform plans through social and public discussions, including the National Assembly."

Regarding the parenting support system, Director Kim said, "We will simplify the benefits by reorganizing the existing first meeting voucher, parent benefit, and child allowance into child welcoming support and child basic allowance." He added, "The child welcoming support will be 10 million won for the first child, 12 million won for the second child, and 15 million won for the third child or more. Additional support will be provided for multiple children, and an additional 5 million won will be provided for preferential areas."

In addition, it was announced that the national responsibility system for the care of people with developmental disabilities and the institutionalization of non-face-to-face treatment will be implemented, and in the case of integrated community care, the number of linked services currently ranging from 30 types in 4 fields will be expanded to 60 types by 2030.

Director Kim added, "We plan to build a complete regional medical system by nurturing the National University Hospital as a key regional essential medical center at the level of Seoul's 'Big 5'," and added, "We will support the design and implementation of customized projects that take into account regional medical conditions through the regional essential medical special accounting, and support the expansion of human resources and infrastructure to strengthen the capabilities of public hospital bases."