The State Council executive meeting recently reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Strengthening the Dynamic Monitoring of Low-income Population and Implementing Stratified and Classified Social Assistance Work" and the "Action Plan for Actively Developing Meal Assistance Services for the Elderly". At the State Council's regular policy briefing held on the 25th, relevant responsible persons from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Commerce introduced the relevant situation.
Improve the bottom line: further expand the scope of rescue and form a "gradual slope"
Tang Chengpei, deputy minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced at the press conference that the newly issued "Opinions on Strengthening Dynamic Monitoring of Low-income Population and Implementing Stratified and Classified Social Assistance Work" proposed to strengthen dynamic monitoring and open up data online with relevant departments. Barriers, data sharing, discover difficulties and risks through data comparison and make early warnings; offline rely on grassroots staff to regularly visit people in need and verify early warning information about difficulties and risks. At the same time, a "one rescue chain for each household" is formed in the information platform to avoid missing or repeated rescues. In terms of stratification and classification, the opinions are stratified according to the degree of difficulty of the low-income population, classified according to the type of difficulty, providing targeted assistance and assistance measures, and further expanding the scope of special assistance from subsistence allowance recipients and extremely poor people to low-income people. Protect marginalized family members and family members with rigid financial difficulties, forming a "gradual gradient".
Building and improving the low-income population dynamic monitoring information platform is an important mechanism innovation that has achieved positive results in recent years. Liu Xitang, director of the Social Assistance Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that the current national low-income population dynamic monitoring information platform has collected basic information on more than 66 million low-income people. "After this platform is built, it is necessary to further expand its functional applications, scientifically set early warning indicators, and provide information query, demand push and other service support for relevant departments to carry out rescue and assistance in hierarchical and classified categories," Liu Xitang said.
Educational assistance: ensuring that no student will drop out of school due to family financial difficulties
Educational assistance is an important part of special social assistance.
Ma Jingbin, head of the Basic Education Department of the Ministry of Education, introduced at the press conference that in recent years, in terms of financial aid for students from families with financial difficulties, our country has formed full coverage of all school stages, both public and private schools, and full coverage of students from families with financial difficulties. Coverage, systemically ensuring that no student will drop out of school due to family financial difficulties. According to preliminary statistics, in 2022, the cumulative amount of funding nationwide will reach 292.273 billion yuan, and a total of 161 million students will be supported.
In terms of school-age children completing compulsory education, our country regularly carries out comparisons between student status system information and population database information, and carries out special actions to control dropouts and ensure schooling before and after the start of each semester, identify the reasons for students dropping out of school, and increase support and assistance. . In addition, in response to the issue of schooling security for students with disabilities in special groups, more children with disabilities will be included in the special education security system, and the per-student public funding for special education students will be increased to 7,000 yuan. In 2022, the enrollment rate of compulsory education for school-age children with disabilities will exceed 96%.
Ma Jinjian also specifically proposed that the schooling security policy for the children of the agricultural migrant population, which is mainly based on residence certificates, will be improved to promote the same treatment in the same city. At the same time, we will improve the precise identification and sorting mechanism for orphans, de facto unsupported children, left-behind children in rural areas, and children in need, and promote the precision and institutionalization of educational care.
Meal assistance for the elderly: Actively build an elderly meal assistance service network covering urban and rural areas, with reasonable layout, co-construction and sharing
Tang Chengpei introduced that the "Action Plan for Actively Developing Meal Assistance Services for the Elderly" clearly covers meal assistance services to the elderly in need and promotes the improvement of the meal assistance service network for the elderly; it clearly insists on paid services, and various regions can combine local economic development levels and According to the financial situation, differentiated subsidies will be provided to the elderly who enjoy meal assistance services; at the same time, localities are required to formulate service standards for elderly meal assistance based on actual conditions to ensure nutritious and healthy meals and continuous and stable supply.
The overall work foundation in rural areas is weak, and it is difficult for catering services to form a market scale. Yu Jianliang, director of the Department of Elderly Care Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, proposed that all localities should be guided to focus on rural areas, adopt preferential measures based on actual conditions, support rural areas to expand service supply, and encourage flexible and diversified solutions to the needs of rural elderly for meal assistance services.
To do a good job in catering services for the elderly, we must give full play to the main role of the catering business. Zhu Guangyao, head of the Department of Trade in Services and Commercial Services of the Ministry of Commerce, said that catering companies, as well as qualified and capable real estate companies, housekeeping companies, etc. will be supported to participate in meal assistance services for the elderly, and catering companies will be supported to provide meal delivery services for the elderly.
The action plan proposes that the development of meal aid for the elderly requires the establishment of a diversified financing mechanism in which "individuals contribute a little, enterprises give a little, the government supplements, the collective adds a little, and the society donates a little." Song Qichao, director of the Social Security Department of the Ministry of Finance, said that they will actively raise funds and refine subsidy policies. "For meal-assisted institutions, certain operating subsidies or comprehensive reward subsidies can be given based on factors such as the number and quality of meal-assisted services and the satisfaction of the elderly. For elderly people who need meal assistance, they can be provided according to their disability level, economic Differentiated subsidies will be provided according to different circumstances such as difficulty level." Song Qichao said.
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