What are the problems and solutions to rural social assistance?

Existing problems:

1. The staffing needs to be improved and the working funds need to be increased. Currently, many rural areas do not have full-time civil affairs staff engaged in social assistance, and village committees do not have full-time personnel engaged in social assistance work. Most of them are managed by deputy directors or members of the village committee. Issues such as staff establishment and remuneration need to be properly resolved. The shortage of funds for rural social assistance work is very common, especially at the township level, where there is no funding for social assistance work at all, which directly affects the normal development of rural social assistance work.

2. Rural social assistance funds are insufficient, the assistance threshold is set too high, and the assistance standards are too low. The source of funding for social assistance is single, and it basically relies on state financial allocations. The desocialization of financing channels has made social assistance a closed government-run undertaking to a certain extent, resulting in many people in need of assistance being blocked from the door to assistance. , resulting in a large savings in rescue funds.

3. The relevant laws are imperfect. The laws and regulations on rural social assistance are not yet sound enough, and the assistance procedures are not standardized enough.

4. The determination of rescue targets is inaccurate. Due to information asymmetry in the process of evaluating aid recipients and incomplete information on aid recipients, it is often easy to miss or incorrectly select aid recipients. In addition, because the conditions of rescue recipients are constantly changing, rescue agencies are unable to dynamically track and grasp all their information in a timely and accurate manner, which also leads to missed or wrong selection of rescue recipients.

Solutions:

1. Improve the construction of handling institutions. Local governments should further standardize the functions of social assistance agencies at all levels and achieve the "four determinations", that is, determining the level, nature, establishment, and funding standards for special work.

2 Increase government financial investment and expand financing channels for rescue funds. Sufficient rescue funds are the material prerequisite and basis for effective rescue. The single government financing channel can no longer meet the needs of rural social assistance development, and financing channels must be expanded in a timely manner.

3. Appropriately lower the threshold for assistance and increase the level of assistance. Carry out investigation work, scientifically determine the rescue thresholds of various rescue projects, and appropriately lower the rescue thresholds so that more groups in need of assistance can receive timely assistance. Increase government investment and gradually increase the level of assistance so that recipients can receive more benefits and improve the livelihood of vulnerable groups.

4. Establish and improve the legal system to legalize and standardize rescue. Accelerate assistance legislation and protect social assistance in the form of law.

5. Scientifically screen and determine rescue targets.