Over 60 Million People In Need Across The Country Receive Price Subsidies

On April 10, the State Council ’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference on policy guarantees for groups in need during the epidemic. Yi Peizhuang, the first-level inspector of the Department of Social Assistance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that up to now, a price subsidy of 1.88 billion yuan has been granted to 615.353 million people in difficulty, of which 54.46 million people are subsistence allowances, 6.39 million people are in special poverty, low-income families and others The number of people in need was 703,000, and the monthly per capita subsidy was 47 yuan. Among them, Hubei Province issued a price subsidy of 440 million yuan for 3.7 million person-times, and a per capita subsidy standard of 120 yuan.