2022년부터 0∼1세 영아수당 월 30만원…출산시 200만원 축하금<br /><br />A one-off, up to 27-hundred U.S. dollars for expecting parents. A monthly check of 275 for all infants until their first birthday. These are just a few perks of a new set of measures announced by South Korea today to turn around the country's low birthrate.<br />The expanded child care subsidies include money to offset hospital bills... and supplement incomes during parental leave.<br />To pay for it, the government will set aide around 180 billion U.S. dollars through the year 2025.<br />Choi Jeong-yoon has more.<br />The South Korean government at Tuesday's Presidential Committee announced a expansion package to subsidize child care...with the aim of tackling the country's low birth rate.<br />Starting 2022, households with infants below the age of one will receive 300-thousand Korean Won, or roughly 275 U.S. dollars every month.<br />This will be gradually increased to around 460 dollars by the year 2025.<br />The government will also doll out 2 million-won or around 1-thousand-830 dollars to women who give birth... to help cover parental expenses.<br />This comes with an increase of over 900 dollars to the current 550 dollars in congratulatory allowances.<br />The package also includes extra perks for working parents, aimed at increasing the number of couples who go on parental leave to 200-thousand by 2025.<br />In 2019, a total of 105-thousand people were either on maternity or paternity leave.<br />Under the new package, couples with a child less than 12 months old can each receive up to 2-thousand-750 dollars of their monthly salary if both parents take a three month-leave from work.<br />The amount of money decreases depending on the period of leave and to the lowest amount if only one parent takes time off.<br />Also, the government will supply more than 27-thousand rental homes over the next five years for families with multiple children...and will gradually change the standard for the so-called "multiple children families" from the current three to two.<br />Hong Nam-ki the Minister of Economy and Finance wrote on his Facebook page that the country cannot avoid a demographic drop-off, unless preparations are made now.<br />The government will inject 180-billion dollars by 2025 to counteract to low birth rate issue.<br />Choi Jeong-yoon, Arirang News.<br />
