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National Assembly passed the fourth supplementary bill this year, worth 7,814.8 billion won, which will be used for the 2nd disaster support fund late last night on the 22nd.

Initially, communication costs of 20,000 won were reduced to all citizens over the age of 13 to pay for specific age groups, and instead, caring expenses and free flu vaccine benefits were increased.



Reporter Jeong-Hyun Jung will report the details.



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[Park Byung-Seok/President of the National Assembly: Declaring that the 4th additional amendment budget has been approved according to the amendment of the Special Committee on Budget and Settlement.] The



National Assembly

passed the 4th additional amendment

budget late last night to pay the 2nd Corona Disaster Support Fund. .



It is 7,814.8 billion won, a reduction of 29.6 billion won by the government.



The ruling and opposition parties, who were in a tight tug-of-war over communications expenses and free flu vaccine vaccinations, announced a blitz agreement around noon yesterday.



The Democratic Party took a step back from the plan to give communications expenses of 20,000 won to all citizens over the age of 13, and made a compromise for runners aged 16 to 34 and over 65.



The plan is to allocate the remaining budget of 520 billion won to projects such as expanding care expenses and supporting corporate taxi drivers, which have been demanded by the power of the people.



The people's strength also agreed to increase the number of free vaccinations to 1.05 million people, including the disabled, without insisting on getting the entire national flu vaccine.



[Kim Tae-nyeon / In addition, Democratic Party Representative: (Disaster Subsidies) I urge you to do your best to provide little comfort to the



people

.]

I think it will be of great help.] The



ruling and opposition parties have made a last-minute compromise in response to concerns about public accusations that are expected when disaster subsidies are not paid before Chuseok.



Democratic Party leader Lee Nak-yeon, who initially suggested the payment of all communications expenses to President Moon Jae-in, also said that he was sorry that the change was changed to selective support, but he is fortunate that he will deal with the supplementary bill soon.