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The Korea Social Security Information Service said that from the 15th, you can apply for energy vouchers on the online welfare portal ‘Welfare Road’.
Energy voucher is a system that supports energy purchase costs such as electricity, city gas, and district heating to reduce the burden of cooling and heating costs for the energy vulnerable.
Among the recipients of basic living security, households that meet the characteristics of the elderly, infants, the disabled, pregnant women, severe, rare, and intractable patients, single-parent families, boys and girls families, and multi-child household members are eligible for support.
Since the 2026 energy voucher project can be used freely within the use period without distinction between winter and summer, it is necessary to apply for a non-reflection of the summer fee if you do not use the voucher in the summer and wish to use it in the winter.
Those eligible for application can apply after authenticating themselves through simple authentication, joint certificate, or financial certificate.
If you were supported with a voucher last year and there was no change in your qualifications this year, it will be automatically registered without a separate application. Changes in qualifications can be checked at the Administrative Welfare Center or the Energy Voucher Integrated Counseling Center at the resident registration site.
The energy voucher project in 2026 will be implemented in summer and winter.
Summer cooling costs will be available from July 1 to September 30, and winter heating costs will be available from October 1 to May 31, 2027. The amount of support will be differentiated from 295,200 won to up to 701,300 won depending on the number of household members.
The “pre-exception payment” system, which is paid in cash if it is difficult to pay the fee with an energy voucher, will also be operated from this year. This mainly applies to cases where electricity bills are included in monthly rent, houses with central heating, and not general residential facilities.
In this case, the amount of support is “the average amount of use by households who have used more than half of them with energy vouchers” and can only be deposited into the recipient’s account, not the member of the household. It is difficult to deposit money even with an anti-seizure account, so in this case, you must open an account for living expenses.
In addition, a new system will be implemented to provide fuel purchase costs (coal conversion energy voucher) to households that have replaced briquette boilers with other boilers, including 42,000 households that received briquette coupons.
The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment also announced that it will expand the service to 122,000 households by post office postmen and social workers to guide households who have difficulty using them after applying for vouchers.
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