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Original title: Next year, the provincial social assistance fund investment will reach 2.47 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%. The “new version” of the social assistance system of our province is online
Source: Xinhua Daily
On December 25, the provincial government held a press conference to interpret the latest “Implementation Opinions on Reform and Improvement of the Social Assistance System” issued by the General Directorate of the Provincial Committee of the Party and the General Directorate of the Provincial Government. The Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Finance, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments, respectively, have interpreted the special assistance in terms of coverage , education, housing and medical treatment.
Social assistance must “exceed” the new expectations of people in need
According to the latest statistics, 35% of the 2.55 million low-income inhabitants registered in the province have already escaped poverty through diets or special aid for poverty. However, compared to the new tasks in the new era, there are still shortcomings. In the future, our province will weave a solid safety net in terms of assistance coverage, service delivery, resource coordination and grassroots capacity building to guarantee the basic life of people in need and respond to people’s new expectations. needy. .
The “Rulings” have made a unified definition of low-income families at the provincial level, that is, if the per capita income of the family is more than 1 time and less than 2 times the standard of the subsistence allowance, and the state family property complies with relevant regulations, is clearly included in housing, education, employment and legal assistance. The scope of special assistance. Depending on the degree of difficulty, the beneficiaries of assistance are divided into categories such as extremely poor people, recipients of diets, low-income families, families in need of expenses and goods in need. The province is divided into districts and cities as a unit, according to the 30% -40% of per capita consumer spending of all residents in the previous year, formulates the current year’s minimum standard of living, which is linked to per capita consumer spending of residents and adjusts dynamically.
According to Qi Xisheng, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, the province’s special help policy has been extended to low-income families in real work, but the low-income standards adopted by various departments before are not uniform and now they are not covered by allowances, and special projects are implemented for each department. Relief provides a unified standard for breaking the “subsistence allowance” and “cliff effect” of system design.
The “Opinions” have clearly stipulated how to improve the basic function. For example, the diet system should be combined according to household insurance and insurance per person, and for first and second degree severe disabilities and third degree mental and intellectual disabilities in low-income urban and rural families. Individuals, as well as those with serious illnesses recognized by the relevant people’s government departments at the county level where their household record is located, are included in the minimum allowances for living with reference to “one-person households.” By 2025, the rate of centralized support for extremely poor people who cannot live alone should not be less than 70%.
In the future, all localities will gradually abolish restrictions on residency and residency applications, and explore the implementation of temporary assistance from places where emergencies occur. Perform legal assistance, do a good job in basic funeral services for deceased persons in distress, promote rehabilitation assistance for disabled children, two disability grants and classified protection for children in distress.
“Material + Service”, walking on two legs
Currently, the province guarantees a total of 452,000 households with 785,000 people living with the subsistence allowance and 212,000 people in extreme poverty. The average subsistence allowance is 771 yuan per person per month, and the integration of urban and rural areas has been fully realized with districts and cities as a unit.
Zhu Xiaowen, director of the Treatment Protection Division of the Provincial Health Insurance Office, explained that the current health care system is constantly improving. The province has played the “triple” protection function of basic health insurance, critical illness insurance and medical assistance to ensure that people in need are “funded.” Critical illness insurance has “slant” and medical assistance has “sustenance.” Currently, there are 7 types of key assistance targets in the province, and all low-income populations with registered cards have been included in the scope of assistance. In the past two years, nearly 3.52 million people in need have received full subsidies each year, more than 9.8 million people have received direct assistance, and nearly 3.1 billion yuan have been spent annually.
In terms of financing, the ability to cover the end results should be strengthened accordingly. “In 2021, the provincial finance plans to organize urban and rural subsistence allowances, temporary assistance, two disability allowances and price subsidies of 2.47 billion yuan, an increase of 126 million yuan from the previous year, a 5.4% increase, which is higher than the average provincial general public budget expenditure. Increase. ”Zhu Lijing, director of the Social Security Division of the Provincial Department of Finance, said that at the same time financial investment increases , our province has also actively guided various charitable funds to carry out poverty alleviation and promoted the benign complementarity between charitable assistance and government assistance.
The “Opinions” clarified that it is necessary to develop service-type social assistance and form a “material + service” assistance method, encourage the purchase of services through the government, introduce diversified entities, and provide diversified assistance services.
In the future, for the elderly, the minors, the disabled and seriously ill patients from difficult families who cannot care for themselves, all localities will provide the necessary visits and care services through government-purchased services; provide academic counseling for school-aged minors from difficult families, Family Fellowship and other services; provide resource links, skills training, jobs, or industrial project assistance for people in need of employment and participation in industrial projects; provide life orientation, psychological comfort and social integration for needy families with special needs and other spiritual support services.
Overcome the “heavy barriers” on the rescue road.
The “Rulings” demand that the welfare field take full advantage of the magic weapon of “big data + grid + iron feet”, utilize modern information technology, establish an early warning and surveillance platform, and proactively find people in difficulty so they can get help more quickly.
The “Opinions” call to deepen the reform of “Social Assistance Bids”. In the future, people can apply for social assistance only by presenting their resident ID and a letter of authorization to verify the family’s economic status. According to Wang Guopei, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Department of Education and secretary of the agency’s Party Committee, identifying the families of students with financial difficulties in the province completely removed the sealing requirements for the certificate. of difficulty and replaced it with a written commitment. Students only need to submit an application to the school they attend without doing any extra due diligence. This fall semester, the province has also promoted online applications, going from “less errands” to “no errands.”
Depending on the actual difficulty of the aid objective, various localities will implement a dynamic aid policy. Fan Xinfang, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that several regions are improving the mechanism of withdrawal from the housing assistance gradient, and the situation of assistance recipients changes, and the rent standard will increase or the subsidy standard will drop over time. Families that no longer meet the subsistence allowance will be guaranteed according to low-income and low-income standards; families who no longer meet the safe housing conditions but are prone to difficulties with housing after retirement can continue to rent according to market rental standards and ensure that they can retire. sequence.
“The” material + service “rescue method will deepen the reform of” delegation, control and service “in the field of social assistance.
