Recently, the "Opinions on Further Guaranteeing and Improving People's Livelihood and Focusing on Solving the Urgents and Worries of the People" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have been publicly released.

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On June 10, the State Information Office held a press conference to introduce the relevant policies on further ensuring and improving people's livelihood. Zhang Wei, head of the Social Assistance Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced at the meeting that the above-mentioned "Opinions" emphasize the need to "enhance social security fairness" and put forward specific requirements for the work of "strengthening the bottom-line assistance of low-income groups", including "strengthening the bottom-line assistance of low-income groups", to carry out low-income population recognition, strengthening dynamic monitoring and early warning, and reasonably determining the minimum living standard. In the next step, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will further improve the social assistance system and mechanism in accordance with the requirements of the "Opinions", strengthen the implementation of policies, and promote various assistance and assistance measures to benefit the needy more fairly, balancedly and sustainably. Focus on doing three aspects: First, further expand the monitoring scope, strengthen policy supply, and ensure that the bottom is covered. Accelerate the construction of the national dynamic monitoring information platform for low-income populations, improve the monitoring and early warning indicator system, gradually expand the monitoring scope, include objects with real difficulties and objects with large potential risks in the monitoring scope, and provide timely assistance to those who meet the conditions. Actively promote the expansion and efficiency of social assistance policies such as minimum living allowance, comprehensively carry out the identification of families with marginal subsistence allowances and families with rigid expenditure difficulties, and work with relevant departments to promote the extension of special assistance such as medical care to families with marginal subsistence allowances and families with rigid expenditure difficulties. Research and formulate relevant plans for the "15th Five-Year Plan" and accelerate the construction of a normalized assistance and assistance system for low-income populations that are coordinated and classified by urban and rural areas. At the same time, we actively promote the issuance of the Social Assistance Law to provide strong legal support for basic people's livelihood security.
Secondly, further strengthen digital empowerment, highlight precise assistance, and ensure the bottom line. Research and formulate measures for the identification of low-income population and the verification method for the economic status of low-income families, promote the national networking of the verification information system, strengthen the sharing and comparison of social assistance information, improve the mechanism of combining "big data comparison + iron foot board survey", and further improve the accuracy of identification of rescue objects. Guide local governments to standardize the implementation of various relief and assistance policies, adhere to the principle of "what is lacking and what is supplemented", and accurately connect with the supply and demand of relief. Carry out in-depth national service social assistance pilot projects, study and formulate policies and measures to accelerate the development of service social assistance, and better meet the multi-level and differentiated assistance needs of people in need.
Release, further strengthen organizational coordination, give full play to the advantages of the system, and better ensure the security. Continuously improve the stratified, classified, comprehensive and efficient social assistance pattern, give full play to the role of coordination mechanisms such as social assistance work leading groups and joint meetings at all levels, strengthen departmental cooperation, strengthen the connection between government assistance and charitable assistance, effectively coordinate the assistance resources of all parties, and form the greatest assistance synergy. Deepen the reform of "efficiently accomplish one thing" in the field of social assistance, guide local governments to establish and improve the operation mechanism of unified identification of low-income populations by civil affairs departments, implement tiered management, dynamic monitoring, push according to needs, classified assistance, and feedback on results, so as to achieve the tracking of rescue and assistance work processes and feedback on results, form a "one household (person) and one closed-loop rescue chain", and effectively weave a tight and solid basic people's livelihood security safety net.
Source | Pengpai News reporter Liu Lu