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The government announced the first low fertility measures by the Moon Jae-in government on May 5th. "The quality of life of 2040 households" And the change in policy direction due to improvement The rapid decline in the number of babies born at birth comes from long-term insecurity On the other hand, the details of the government's measures are not limited to the fact that it does not go beyond the scope of the childbirth and support policy over the past 10 years.
The most important thing is the policy of expanding housing support for honeymooners and young people, as confirmed by the Presidential Committee on Low Fertility and the Committee of the Society of the Elderly. Last year, the number of married couples dropped to 26,000 couples a year, which will fund social housing and funds up to 890,000 couples for five years until 2022. In terms of size and support content, it is estimated that it is better than before.

Kim Sang-hee, vice chairman of the senior society committee on low fertility in the presidential office, announces "the key tasks for a happy country to work and raise children" Park Sang-gon, Minister Health and Welfare, Vice Minister of Social Affairs and Education, Minister of Women and Family Affairs, Chung Hyun – Baek. Yonhap News

Measures to solve the "blind spot of paid maternity leave" are also new. Therefore, specialized workers, such as insurance designers and guardians, who are not covered by unemployment insurance, short-term workers working less than 15 hours a week and self-employed persons receive 500,000 won a month for three months. Only workers enrolled in Employment Insurance can receive benefits at the time of parental leave or before and after maternity leave The rate of coverage of non-regular employment insurance was only 68.7% in June 2017.
The cost of outpatient care for children under one year old is now reduced from 21 to 42 percent to 5 to 20 percent. In addition, the government has decided to extend the period of "maternity leave for spouse" from 5 days (3 days paid, 2 days unpaid) to 10 days paid to promote the participation of dad in the care of d & # 39; 39; children. If parents use parental leave in the same way for the same child, the maximum amount of Dad's parental leave bonus for the first 3 months of parental leave is increased from 2 million won to 2.5 million won . However, the number of people taking parental leave in 2017 has reached 9,123. There are many workers who can not use this system even if they want to use it.
At the National Funding Strategy meeting on May 31, President Moon Jae-in ordered his government to consider ways to support the birth of couples living together. Depending on the measure, the de facto couple, who have not declared their marriage, will be allowed to have health insurance when they undergo fertility treatment. However, there is no concrete plan to guarantee the rights of different families, such as single-parent families, cohabitations and single-parent families, which are growing rapidly. In 2014, the birth rate of unmarried women born outside the marital system is 1.9%, which is much lower than that of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which is 39.9%.
Lee Chang-joon, planner and coordinator of an aging low birth rate society, said, "We will add about 900 billion won of funding (excluding residential measures) to the budget this year and will revise the law to implement this. measure from next year. I focused on short-term measures to lighten this speed too fast. The basic policy direction is to reflect the process of restructuring the third basic plan for low-fertility aging (achieved in the previous government) (2016 ~ 2020) and to announce revisions in October this year . "The committee predicted that the number of newborns (358,000), which reached a record low last year, could fall below 320,000 this year.
Inside the countermeasures presented by the committee that day, it is criticized that "it did not meet expectations". One member said: "Only the paradigm has changed and the concrete measures have not changed. It is difficult to have new perspectives or ideas because each department submits what it has done to the committee. Another member of the committee said, "The diagnosis of the population problem should be as flexible as possible from various angles.
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