Sergeant, up to 1.3 million won per month... Increase youth support budget

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government has decided to raise the monthly salary of military sergeants up to 1.3 million won next year.

In addition, the savings account for youth and the housing supply budget have been increased.

Let's look at the report that summarizes the youth support budget first, and then take a look at the overall contents of the budget.

Correspondent Han Sang-woo.

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Oh Seong-min, who was discharged from the military last November, raised over 4 million won in the military.

[Sungmin Oh/University Student: When I was discharged from the military, the sergeant’s salary was increased to around 600,000 won, but since I saved 200,000 won in monthly savings and 100,000 won in a separate personal account, I also spent some time to buy furniture for self-sufficiency.

] This amount goes up even more.

The sergeant receives 1 million won per month and an additional 300,000 won for savings, so he can save up to 1.3 million won a month.

The sergeant's monthly salary is planned to increase to 2.55 million won by 2025.

An additional 960 billion won will be invested in the budget next year.

In addition, 340 billion won will be invested in a savings account for young people, which was a promise made by the president.

If a young person under the age of 34 pours up to 700,000 won a month, an additional 6% will be added so that they can save 50 million won within 5 years.

You can join if your annual income is 60 million won or less, based on a two-person household, and your monthly income is 5.86 million won or less.

We decided to build 54,000 youth houses in the station area and sell them at 70% of the market price, and 1.4 trillion won was organized as a loan for the sale.

On the other hand, jobs have decided to reduce direct government support.

Instead of reducing more than 60,000 public-type jobs for seniors, such as cleaning parks, it has decided to provide subsidies to companies that hire the elderly.

[Cho Kyung-ho / Deputy Prime Minister of Economy: In order to take the flow of direct simple labor-type jobs slightly decreasing, and private senior citizens jobs increasing a little more…

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In addition, as the subsidy provided by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when they hired young people is gone, the youth job budget is also reduced by more than 1 trillion won.

(Video coverage: Kim Chul-min, video editing: Park Chun-bae)

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Reporter Han Sang-woo is here.

[Reporter Han Sang-woo: The government directly spends money to hire people, young people or the elderly, it is something like this.

When companies hire people, they directly pay them, but instead of avoiding that, they plan to indirectly support those in need of specialized talent in areas such as semiconductors, biotechnology, or games by increasing their education budget and thus increasing employment.]

[Reporter Han Sang-woo: Representatively, there is a local currency such as Seoul Love Gift Certificate.

This time, the local currency budget was set at 0 won and not supported at all.]

[Reporter Han Sang-woo: That's right.

The central government supported a local currency budget of over 1 trillion won last year, and this year also provided about 800 billion won. This means that the central government will not support it.

However, if that happens, local governments with some money like Seoul will not have a big problem, but local governments with poor finances may not be able to issue local currency at all.

So, it seems that various stories will come out in the process of discussion in the National Assembly.]

[Reporter Han Sang-woo: If I had to compare it, it wasn't very tight, but I turned it a little like it used to, you can see it like this.

According to the current government announcement, the annual average annual budget growth rate is 4.6%.

However, 8.7% under the Moon Jae-in administration and 4.4% under the Park Geun-hye administration.

Although it has decreased compared to the Moon Jae-in administration, it is also slightly higher than the Park Geun-hye administration.

That's why we've reduced our spending so much, it seems a bit difficult to evaluate like this.]