In the end, Baek visited the office on the 7th with his father in a wheelchair and was able to get documents issued by replacing his/her own authentication by asking the name of his/her child.
"My father, a proud veteran, has to take out documents like this once a year to receive a pension," Baek said. "It is a nuisance for the state to ask the elderly with dementia to prove that they are alive even if they are not necessarily national merit."
On the other hand, Article 54 of the Military Pension Act, which was presented as the basis for the request for data submission by the Armed Forces Financial Management Team, states that if there is a justifiable reason, they may not comply with the demand for payment of salaries.
In response, Baek said, "I still don't know why my father's health condition and old age were not recognized as justifiable reasons."
An official from the Ministry of National Defense said, "We selected those who submitted documents based on the number of people without medical records within the last two years," adding, "It was difficult to recognize this as a legitimate reason because it was not possible to accurately grasp the situation of the people of national merit only by wire consultation."
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