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2nd employment security support fund due to Corona has started to be paid first to specially employed workers and freelancers today (24th).
It was said that those who received it in the first round will receive 500,000 won without separate screening, but it is expected that about 30,000 will not receive it.
Reporter Hwa Kang-yoon reports.
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Kim Jae-hyup, a freelance writer who received the first employment security subsidy after his income was cut off after the coronavirus.
However, I was notified that the 2nd subsidy was not eligible.
This is because I participated in a public job program last month to make a living.
[Kim Jaehyup/Freelance writer: Honestly, I'm not convinced.
It only lasts two months, and the combined salary is only a few hundred thousand won.
Do you think it's more damaging to work?]
Mr. Yoon is in a situation where not only the second subsidy, but the 1.5 million won he received in the first round will be redeemed.
It was belatedly a problem that we received urgent living expenses from the city office in April as it was difficult to make a living enough to push electricity and gas bills over three months.
[Moo Yoon/Freelance instructor: The job center said,'At first, we don't know.
So apply for it,' because I said so.] The
Ministry of Employment is in the position that it is to prevent redundant applications as the financial resources are limited.
However, there are also opinions that prior guidance was not sufficient, and that people who are more desperate to do anything will feel reverse discrimination.
[Hyunsu Choi/Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs: Participating in various jobs, these things are in conflict with their income reduction or the system that they will support these parts...
.] The
government estimates that more than 30,000 of the first applicants are unlikely to receive the second grant due to participation in public jobs.
(Video coverage: Kim Myung-gu, Yoo Dong-hyuk, Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jong-tae)