Government Announces Plan to Improve Social Mobility: Doubling Spouse’s Maternity Leave and Expanding Educational Support for Low-Income Families

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The government announced a plan to improve ‘social mobility’.

Various measures were included, such as increasing childcare leave benefits and doubling the husband’s maternity leave to 20 days.

Let’s contact the reporter to hear more details.

Reporter Kang Eun-na-rae.

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Yes, the government unveiled the ‘Social Mobility Improvement Plan’ at the Emergency Economic Ministers’ Meeting today (1st).

First, the government will establish an ‘All Care Platform’ which links information between ministries to provide timely employment information and consultation with jobseekers.

In addition, in order to prevent women from taking a career break, childcare leave benefits will gradually increase, and a spouse’s maternity leave will be doubled from the current 10 days to 20 days.

We decided to remove the restrictions on re-employment industries for women with career breaks who qualify for preferential support for the integrated employment tax credit, and include men in the future as well.

The government also announced its policy to strengthen education support for low income families.

The target of the School of Dreams Scholarship support will be expanded from the current 1st year to the 3rd year of middle school to elementary school students, and the proportion of high school graduates among new hires in public institutions will be increased.

As a measure to support asset formation through earned income, the personal comprehensive asset management account and ISA systems will be completely overhauled.

The reorganization includes expanding the scope of disclosure, diversifying corporate products, and improving transfer methods.

In addition, the government is considering improving the system so that ‘part’ of the national pension benefit can be received early, and implementing a ‘real estate annuity’ to reduce capital gains tax when basic pension recipients who own one house or less are selling for a long time. term real estate and paying into a pension account We also decided to introduce a ‘promoted tax system’.

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The emergency meeting of economic ministers was also held today as a price meeting of economic ministers, correct?

Have you drawn up a plan to improve the distribution structure of agricultural and marine products?

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Yes, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced a joint plan to improve the distribution structure of agricultural and marine products.

The essence of the plan is to revive competition in the public wholesale market to control the prices of agricultural and marine products, while reviving the online wholesale market.

Legislate the cancellation of the designation of poorly performing wholesale market corporations, and establish standards for the number of corporations in the public wholesale market to make designation mandatory.

We also decided to focus on nurturing 100 distribution centers for agricultural products.

The goal of increasing the transaction volume of the online wholesale market to 5 trillion won by 2027 was also announced.

The government expected that these measures would reduce distribution costs for agricultural and marine products by more than 10%.

So far, we have conveyed this to the Ministry of the Economy. (rae@yna.co.kr)

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