As of 1 p.m. on the 31st, 11 days after the acceptance of the people's livelihood recovery consumption coupons began, it was reported that 9 out of 10 citizens applied. The total amount disbursed exceeded 8 trillion won.

The Ministry of Interior and Safety stated that as of 1 p.m. on the 31st, 45,546,552 people had applied for the consumption coupons. This corresponds to about 90% of the total eligible recipients (50,607,067 people). The amount disbursed is 8.2371 trillion won.

An elderly person is climbing the stairs to receive the livelihood support consumption coupon at the 2nd floor of the Juwol 1-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City on the 30th. /Courtesy of News1

The most common form of disbursement was credit and debit cards (32,461,194 people). Following that were local love gift certificates in mobile and card form (719,378 people), prepaid cards (500,1785 people), and paper local love gift certificates (893,195 people) in that order.

The place with the highest application rate compared to the total number of eligible recipients was Incheon (92.17%). Following this were Sejong (91.82%), Gwangju Metropolitan City (91.21%), Daejeon (91.19%), and Daegu (91.04%). In contrast, Jeonnam (87.73%), Jeju (87.83%), Gyeongbuk (88.37%), and Gangwon (88.74%) had relatively lower application rates.

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