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To reduce the burden on parents raising their children, the government will pay 300,000 won per month to babies 0-1 year from 2022 and increase the amount to 500,000 won by 2025.
In addition, two million won are paid as a lump sum when giving birth, and if parents with children under one year of age take parental leave for three months to maintain the joint parenthood of the couple, a maximum of three million will be provided. won per month to both parties.
Additionally, a plan is also being promoted to provide full college tuition support to third or more children of low-income multi-child households, and to change the multi-child standard from three children to two children.
On the 15th, the government confirmed the IV Basic Plan for Low Fertility and the Elderly Society with these details. This plan will be the basis of the population policy that will be implemented from next year until 2025.
◇ Besides the child allowance, the child allowance is also paid … 500,000 won in 2025
The government will introduce infant allowances in 2022 to support the costs of growing children.
A monthly allowance is paid to all babies aged 0-1, separate from the ‘Child Allowance’ (100,000 won per month), which is currently paid to children under 7 years of age. It starts at 300,000 won in the first year and gradually increases to 500,000 won in 2025.
Currently, infants receive full support for child care fees when using daycare and receive a child care subsidy (200,000 won per month for 0 year olds and 150,000 won per month for 1 year old) when they use a nursery. In the future, parents who receive child allowance will pay for daycare or part-time childcare, depending on the parenting method chosen. You pay. The child benefit is expected to cost 3 trillion won over five years.
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The “ first meeting package ” system, which pays 2 million won for delivery, will also be introduced in 2022. There are no restrictions on the use of the grant.
The usage limit of the National Happiness Card paid to pregnant women is also raised from 600,000 won to 1 million won. When the one-time delivery fee and the National Happiness Card are combined, the total amount of money paid for medical expenses and initial child care is 3 million won.
The government decided to increase the number of parental leave from 105,000 in 2019 to 200,000 in 2025 to guarantee time with children and to establish a new ‘3 + 3 parental leave system’.
When all parents with children under 12 months of age take parental leave for 3 months, each month they pay up to 3 million won (100% of normal salary) and the parental leave benefits are higher than when only one parent it goes.
The government plans to distribute joint parental care to parents receiving more salaries than if only one parental leave for one month (maximum 2 million won per month) or two months (maximum 2.5 million won per month) for both parents. be be.
The maximum salary a couple can receive when taking parental leave for three months at the same time is 4 million won in the first month, 5 million won in the second month, and 6 million won in the third month, a total of 15 million won.
The amount of this parental leave benefit was once unclear within the government. The Deputy Minister of Employment and Labor explained in a briefing that the maximum salary for the ‘3 + 3 parental leave system’ was 15 million won, but the Division of the Foundation for Gender Equality of the Low Fertility Social Committee and Aging revised it at 18 million won, and the Ministry of Labor revised it at 15 million won. They showed that the hands and feet did not match between related ministries.
In order to mitigate the decline in income after childbirth, the income replacement rate for parental leave benefits is also increased. Currently, 80% of normal salary (up to 1.5 million won per month) is paid for 1 to 3 months of leave and 50% (1.2 million won per month) for 4 to 12 months, but the 80% will be applied collectively regardless of the period.
In addition, a subsidy of 2 million won per month is provided for small and medium-sized enterprises with workers taking child care leave for 3 months, and tax deductions are granted for small and medium-sized enterprises that have maintained the employment of the returnees from parental leave for more than 1 year (5-10 → 15-30%). It expands.
In order to establish parental leave as a universal right, the government decided to take measures so that not only salaried workers, but also special workers, artists, platform workers, freelancers and the self-employed can use parental leave.
◇ Third party tuition assistance for low-income households … Multiple children 3 children → 2 children change
Support to households with multiple children is also being expanded. By 2025, 27,000 multi-child rental housing units will be provided, and when multiple children (two or more children) live in public rental housing, priority will be given when they want to move to a broader level of balance.
The government is also pushing for a plan to change multiple children, which is the standard for various support measures, from the current three children to two children.
For the third and oldest child from low-income households, full college tuition is provided.
In addition, it plans to create 550 national and public day care centers each year to achieve 50% of the public day care utilization after five years.
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The government also introduces various devices so that women can continue to maintain and grow their careers without penalties for marriage or childbirth.
The company decided to comprehensively disclose gender gaps in hiring, employees and wages through disclosure to management, and to establish a new relief procedure, such as the punitive damages compensation system through the Labor Committee. , to substantially protect victims of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. .
The government also introduces a ‘birth notification system’ that requires medical institutions to notify national institutions of all children born without omission to clarify that children are subjects of rights.
As for the countermeasures for the elderly society, the government announced that it will strengthen national responsibility for basic life and complete a comprehensive care system for the local community so that the elderly can live comfortably in the place where they lived.
For this, there are measures such as the abolition of the standard for those obliged to support life benefits, the expansion of jobs for the elderly, the expansion of basic pensions, mandatory retirement pensions, the expansion of pension subscriptions of housing, the activation of visit-based medical care, the expansion of the elderly with long-term care insurance and the supply of 20,000 social housing for the elderly. As a foundation, we will promote asset protection using public trusts, a health incentive system that includes compensation for efforts to improve health, and expand the number of people subject to national medical checkups to 80 or more.
◇ With the aim of being a ‘sustainable society where all generations are happy together’
The Presidential Committee on Low Fertility and Older People, which led the measure, predicted that as a fourth core plan, the share of household spending in Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) will rise from 1.48% today to 1.6%. % in 2025.
However, this is less than the 2.4% average for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The government announced that it would preferentially invest the budget not used due to the decrease in the birth rate in countermeasures for the low birth rate and the aging of the population.
The committee said, “The low birth rate should be viewed in terms of ‘outcomes’ rather than a problem,” when the total fertility rate (the average number of births a woman is expected to have) was reduced to 0, 92 “. Insecure employment and high housing costs,” Many younger generations are having difficulty marrying and giving birth or are no longer considered essential in the face of excessive competition and a social structure in which work and parenthood cannot be combined ”.
“In the case of the main European countries, which are said to have overcome low fertility to some extent, it generally took about 20 years to stabilize the fertility rate and, in this process, we made significant investments through of family spending ”. We will improve quality and restore a positive outlook for the future. “
The committee presented the vision of the IV Basic Plan as ‘a sustainable society where all generations are happy together’.
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