On May 13, Changjiang Daily Financial Media reported that on May 13, reporters of Changjiang Daily learned from the executive meeting of Wuhan Municipal Government that since April 1, 2019, Wuhan has adjusted the minimum living standard for urban and rural residents and the security standard for social assistance objects such as people living in extreme poverty.
The minimum living security standard for urban residents was raised from 715 yuan per person per month to 780 yuan per person; The minimum living security standard for rural residents was raised from 580 yuan per person per month to 635 yuan.
The standard for the support of rural poverty-stricken people has been raised from 1100 yuan per person per month to 1200 yuan per month; The standard of providing for the urban extremely poor and scattered orphans has been raised from 1430 yuan per person per month to 1560 yuan per month; The standard for raising orphans in a centralized way was raised from 2300 yuan per person per month to 2500 yuan.
According to the introduction of Wuhan Civil Affairs Bureau, our city issued more than 1 billion yuan of subsistence allowances last year. Among them, 540 million yuan of minimum living allowances and various subsidies were granted to urban residents and 520 million yuan to rural residents. After the standard was raised, the comprehensive growth rate of our city's minimum living standard was 9.3%. The urban minimum living standard was about 30% of the per capita consumption expenditure of urban residents last year, and the rural minimum living standard was about 43.5% of the per capita consumption expenditure of rural residents last year. The relevant person in charge of the Civil Affairs Bureau told the Changjiang Daily that behind these figures is the improvement of the income and quality of life of low-income families, the further narrowing of the gap between urban and rural minimum living standards, and the strengthening of targeted poverty alleviation. In the future, more low-income families and spending poor families will enjoy the assistance policy. (Reporter Wang Xue, Yang Fan, Correspondent Dai Liangjun)
