Ministry of Civil Affairs of China: 3.71 billion yuan of temporary price subsidies have been issued to people in need
China News Agency, Beijing, April 24 (Reporter Wang Zumin) The Ministry of Civil Affairs of China reported on the 24th that according to preliminary statistics, this year, various regions have issued temporary price subsidies of 3.71 billion yuan (RMB, down The same), benefiting 81.689 million person-times, the basic life of the people affected by the epidemic is effectively guaranteed.
At the press conference held by the Ministry of Civil Affairs on the same day, Jia Weizhou, a spokesman for the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that in the face of the sudden new pneumonia epidemic, the Ministry of Civil Affairs actively played the role of civil affairs in the prevention and control of the epidemic and coordinated the prevention and control of the epidemic in the field of civil affairs. And various tasks. In terms of social assistance and poverty alleviation, we have issued relevant social assistance policy documents during the prevention and control period, promptly launched the implementation of the linkage mechanism between social assistance and security standards and price increases, and guided all regions, especially Hubei Province and Wuhan City, to make effective use of social assistance Policies to effectively guarantee the basic lives of people in difficulty affected by the epidemic.
According to preliminary statistics, since the beginning of this year, 3.71 billion yuan of temporary price subsidy funds have been issued to people in need, such as people with low living allowances, particularly poor people, etc., benefiting 81.689 million person-times. In Hubei Province, people with special difficulties, such as urban and rural minimum living security personnel, extremely poor people, etc., are provided with living materials in accordance with the standards of no less than 500 yuan for urban personnel and no less than 300 yuan for rural personnel. All localities who are diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia in low-income people, especially poor people, low-income families, and poor households who have filed a card will be given temporary assistance ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 yuan per household according to the degree of difficulty.
In terms of social affairs management services, comprehensively strengthen the prevention and control of epidemic situations of rescue management agencies to ensure the health and safety of the service targets. In conjunction with the relevant departments, a special action was launched to improve the quality of rescue management services for homeless beggars. From January to March, the national rescue management agencies rescued 144,000 homeless beggars. Guiding localities to continue to implement the two subsidy systems for the disabled, benefiting 10.69 million disabled persons and 13.54 million severely disabled persons respectively.
Regarding the construction of the old-age service system, strengthen the safety management of old-age institutions and care services for the elderly in special difficulties, continue to promote special actions for the construction of the quality of nursing homes in the country, and promote the development of the quality of community old-age services. Up to now, there are nearly 200,000 old-age service institutions and facilities nationwide, with more than 7.6 million old-age service beds, and the quality of old-age service has been continuously improved. (Finish)