Recently, the Yantai Civil Affairs Bureau and the Yantai Municipal Finance Bureau jointly issued a document to adjust the city's assistance standards for the needy in 2024. After this adjustment, the basic living standards of Laizhou's urban and rural subsistence allowance and urban and rural extremely poor people, the basic living standards of orphaned and poor children, and the "two subsidies" for the disabled have all been improved, and the standard of assistance for the needy has achieved "five consecutive increases".
In 2023, 1,464 people will be newly included in Laizhou, and 248 people will be included in the special poverty. After the adjustment, the urban subsistence allowance standard was raised from 1,001 yuan to 1,069 yuan per person per month, an increase of 67%；The subsistence allowance in rural areas has been raised from 800 yuan to 872 yuan per person per month, an increase of 9 percent.
The basic standard of living for people living in extreme poverty in urban areas has been raised from 1,402 yuan to 1,497 yuan per person per month, and the basic living standard for people living in extreme poverty in rural areas has been raised from 1,120 yuan to 1,221 yuan per person per month.
In terms of the adjustment of the basic living standards of orphaned and poor children, the basic living expenses for orphans raised in institutions have been raised from 2,503 yuan to 2,673 yuan per person per month; The standard of basic living expenses for socially dispersed orphans has been raised from 2,002 yuan to 2,138 yuan per person per month (de facto unsupported children and children affected by AIDS shall be implemented with reference to this standard); The standard of basic living allowance for children in key difficulties has been raised from 1,785 yuan to 1,921 yuan per person per month.
In terms of the adjustment of the standards of the "two subsidies" for the disabled, the living allowance standard for disabled persons with difficulties in the first and second levels has been adjusted to 214 yuan per person per month, and the living allowance standard for disabled persons with difficulties in the third and fourth levels has been adjusted to 161 yuan per person per month; The nursing subsidy standard for the first-level severely disabled is adjusted to 193 yuan per person per month, and the nursing subsidy standard for the second-level severely disabled is adjusted to 161 yuan per person per month.