No, already?Due to the early exhaustion of the pre-pregnancy health care budget this year, application deadlines continue
Jun 18, 2025
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The pre-pregnancy health management project to support healthy pregnancy and childbirth, such as early detection and treatment of high-risk factors for pregnancy and childbirth, supports ovarian functional tests (AMH) and gynecological ultrasound tests for women and semen tests for men. Women can receive up to 130,000 won and men can receive up to 50,000 won.
Last year, it started by providing once-in-a-lifetime support to couples and prospective couples, including common-law marriages, but as more than 130,000 people applied and received good responses, it expanded the target regardless of marriage this year and increased the number of times to three per life cycle. It is once for those under 29, 30-34, and 35-49 years old. As a result, the Ministry of Health and Welfare's budget also increased from 6.25 billion won last year to 9 billion won this year.
However, the number of applicants from 130,000 for nine months between April and December last year exceeded 90,000 in two months this year, and the number of applicants identified by the Ministry of Health and Welfare recently increased significantly, resulting in early budget exhaustion.
In this regard, as of the 13th, five local governments, including Seoul, Busan, and Sejong, have stopped accepting pre-pregnancy health care support due to exhaustion of state funds (50% on average) or local expenses. In some areas, such as the Seoul Metropolitan Government, due to the early exhaustion of the budget last year, the project to be implemented this year has already been implemented early and the cost of last year's inspection has been deposited from this year.
The government plans to supplement the budget by first attempting self-adjustment within the metropolitan area as the demand difference is large for each basic local government within the metropolitan area.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
