Purpose of this study is to review the rationality of the ‘Customized Benefit System`` by the reorganization of the National Basic Livelihood Security System and to see whether it is fulfilling its function as the public assistance through ensuring ...
Purpose of this study is to review the rationality of the ‘Customized Benefit System`` by the reorganization of the National Basic Livelihood Security System and to see whether it is fulfilling its function as the public assistance through ensuring guarantee. As the analysis result, by relieving or abolishing the standard of person who is under obligation to support that was pointed as the major element of blind spot of welfare, the entrance of recipients of the poor became rather easy. By differentiating the selection standard of the recipient per benefit, exit from welfare effect could be done by weakening the motivation to maintain the recipient position which is the problem of the comprehensive benefit and could escape from absolute poverty concept that applied the minimum cost of living by applying the comparative standard line based on the medium income in selecting recipient and benefit. However, method of deciding on the comparative standard line the certain point of the medium income simply has the limit that it does not show direct relativeness with the basic desire satisfaction needed for guarantee of minimum standard of living. Therefore, in order for the customized benefit system to act its full role as the public assistance, it is seen that social agreement on the scientific objective and comparative standard line setting method is needed.