Ministry of Civil Affairs: As of the end of September a total of 143.68 billion yuan in subsistence allowance funds had been spent

Wu Zengfeng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and deputy director of the General Office (International Cooperation Department), introduced at the third quarter regular press conference of the Ministry of Civil Affairs held on the 20th that as of the end of September, there were 39.952 million urban and rural subsistence allowance recipients across the country. , a cumulative expenditure of 143.68 billion yuan in subsistence allowance funds; as of the end of September, there were 4.694 million people in extreme poverty across the country, and a cumulative expenditure of 40.82 billion yuan in special poverty support funds; a total of 4.818 million people had been provided with temporary assistance in the first three quarters, and a total of 6.4 billion yuan in temporary assistance funds had been spent .