1. Background This research is a six-year study on "Reducing Blind Spots in the Social Security Field and Plans for Managing Improper Expenditure,” conducted by the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs(KIHASA) as a mid-term project since 201...
1. Background This research is a six-year study on "Reducing Blind Spots in the Social Security Field and Plans for Managing Improper Expenditure,” conducted by the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs(KIHASA) as a mid-term project since 2016. Our institute has developed a monitoring (social security monitoring) framework for managing blind spots and improper expenditures in the social security system and applied it to the income security and social service system. In 2021, the social security monitoring framework was applied to emergency assistance in response to COVID-19. In this study, emergency support refers to various cash and in-kind packages provided by the central and local governments in response to unemployment and closure, income reduction, and the gap in care due to COVID-19. There are three main reasons emergency support was selected as a target of analysis. First, COVID-19 affected everyone regardless of their income and wealth, but it had a more profound ef