The General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the General Office of the Ministry of Finance recently jointly issued a notice to deploy matters related to the Spring Festival "Sending Warmth" activities to ensure the basic livelihood of the people in difficulty during the Spring Festival. The notice pointed out that all localities should strengthen the distribution and supervision mechanism of relief funds for the needy, prevent the misappropriation of relief funds, and the issuance of relief funds stranded by financial institutions, so as to ensure the standardized use and safe operation of the "life-saving money" of the needy. Local civil affairs and finance departments and financial institutions should strengthen coordination and cooperation to ensure that relief funds such as subsistence allowances and special hardship pensions for February are distributed in place before the Spring Festival. The circular pointed out that during the Spring Festival, all localities should combine visits and condolences and adopt a variety of methods to carefully organize and carry out activities to "send warmth" to the people in difficulty. Encourage localities with the capacity to issue one-time living subsidies to people in need, such as those who are eligible for subsistence allowances, persons living in extreme poverty, people on the margins of subsistence allowances, and people with difficulties in rigid expenditures, and may give priority to the issuance of consumption vouchers and other means. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance will take the distribution of one-time living subsidies in various localities as an important reference factor for the allocation of relief subsidies for people with financial difficulties in 2024. The full text of the notice is as follows
The General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the General Office of the Ministry of Finance on the implementation.
The Spring Festival "Sending Warmth" activity effectively guarantees difficulties.
Notification of the basic livelihood of the masses.
Min Ban Han 2024 No. 9.
The civil affairs departments (bureaus) and finance departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, and directly under the Central Government, the civil affairs bureaus and finance bureaus of each plan separately listed, and the civil affairs bureaus and finance bureaus of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
In order to thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment, fully implement the requirements of the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Relevant Work during the 2024 New Year's Day and Spring Festival" issued by the General Office of the Communist Party of China, and effectively ensure the basic livelihood of the people in difficulty during the Spring Festival, the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows.
1. Extensively carry out the Spring Festival "warmth" activities.
During the Spring Festival, all localities should combine visits and condolences, and adopt a variety of ways to carefully organize and carry out "warmth" activities for the people in need, so as to send the best care and care to the hearts of the people in need. Encourage localities with the capacity to issue one-time living subsidies to people in need, such as those who are eligible for subsistence allowances, persons living in extreme poverty, people on the margins of subsistence allowances, and people with difficulties in rigid expenditures, and may give priority to the issuance of consumption vouchers and other means. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance will take the distribution of one-time living subsidies in various localities as an important reference factor for the allocation of relief subsidies for people with financial difficulties in 2024. It is necessary to conscientiously implement the "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Strengthening the Effective Connection between Aid and Charitable Assistance" (Min Fa 2023 No. 46), actively mobilize and guide charitable organizations and other social forces to carry out "warmth" activities, and provide targeted and personalized assistance and assistance to the people in need. It is necessary to combine the "warmth" activities to go deep into the grassroots to understand the expectations and demands of the people in difficulty, conscientiously sort out and exert efforts to solve the emerging problems and outstanding problems involving the basic livelihood of the people, and do a solid and detailed job in the work of ensuring the basic livelihood of the people in difficulty.
2. Ensure that people in distress have a door to seek help and receive help in a timely manner during the Spring Festival.
All localities should, on the basis of the daily dynamic monitoring of the low-income population, visit the key early warning targets one by one, so as to achieve timely discovery, rapid response, and immediate assistance, and those who meet the requirements should be promptly included in the scope of assistance such as the subsistence allowance, persist in handling urgent matters, and issue relief funds such as the subsistence allowance as soon as possible to meet the needs of the people in difficulty for the holidays. It is necessary to strengthen the personnel on duty during the festival, smooth social assistance services, and promptly accept and respond to the needs of people in difficulty for help, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will organize a third party to conduct spot checks on the situation on duty in various places. It is necessary to make full use of the township (street) temporary relief reserve fund, implement the "first rescue" measure, strengthen the temporary assistance of people in distress, and ensure that all those in difficulty must be helped, and those in difficulty must be rescued. The northern region should do a good job of heating assistance in accordance with local conditions and help the people in difficulty to survive the winter.
3. Timely and full payment of all kinds of relief funds.
All localities should strengthen the distribution and supervision mechanism of relief funds for the needy, fully implement the work responsibilities of the civil affairs, financial departments and financial institutions, and distribute all kinds of relief funds to the needy people on time and in full in accordance with the requirements of direct access to funds, resolutely prevent the misappropriation of relief funds, and the issuance of relief funds stranded by financial institutions, so as to ensure the standardized use and safe operation of the "life-saving money" of the needy people. Local civil affairs and finance departments and financial institutions should strengthen coordination and cooperation to ensure that relief funds such as subsistence allowances and special hardship pensions for February are distributed in place before the Spring Festival. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance will organize spot checks by adopting the "four noes and two straights" approach, and include the relevant situation in the 2024 performance evaluation of the basic livelihood assistance work for people in difficulty.
Fourth, strengthen the livelihood assistance of people in distress due to disasters.
All localities should pay close attention to the living conditions of the people in difficulty affected by natural disasters such as landslides, low temperatures, rain, snow and ice, strengthen the connection between social assistance policies and disaster relief policies, and for those who still have difficulties in basic life after emergency and transitional assistance, the civil affairs departments should take the initiative to implement various relief measures in a timely manner. It is necessary to pay special attention to the recipients of the subsistence allowance and the extremely poor among the people affected by the disaster, and earnestly help them tide over the difficulties.
All localities should further improve their political positions, strengthen their responsibility, earnestly deploy and carry out the Spring Festival "warmth" activities, and strengthen the implementation of relief policies. Give full play to the role of the coordination mechanism for the basic livelihood guarantee work of the people in difficulty at the county level, adopt the method of "one matter, one discussion", and promptly solve the problems of emergency and difficult cases during the Spring Festival, so as to ensure that the people in difficulty spend a warm and peaceful Spring Festival.
General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
General Office of the Ministry of Finance.
February 4, 2024.
*: Synthesized from China's civil affairs and people**.
Editor: Jiaxiang, Chenyi, Mingbo.