Cases of experiencing difficulties while being cut off from the national welfare network and relationships with people around them are often found, such as the ‘Songpa mother and daughter incident’ in 2014.56) However, it is also suggested that their failure to use the welfare system is not simply because they are not active, but rather as a result of the psychological trauma of experiencing long-term frustration and abandonment due to unstable labor and low wages. There are repeated cases of giving up on their own due to strict selection criteria, low level of guarantee, suspicion of being illegal recipients, cold eyes toward recipients, and difficult system operation methods, and therefore, the welfare system based on request need to be modified.57) On the other hand, questions are raised as to whether it is reasonable to collect more information suggesting a crisis in order to identify the poor class at risk that requires state intervention. The government collects 34 types of information, including information on rent and utility bill arrears, and is considering amending the law to allow tracking of personal locations, which can only be collected in exceptional cases, for at-risk households as well. However, there are also concerns over sensitive information being managed at once, and even if the amount of information collected is increased, it is difficult to clarify “whose poverty is more serious.” The UN also published a report in 2019 warning of the dangers that automated decision-making structures through extensive information gathering could turn welfare systems into a new “digital dystopia.” These views assert the following efforts must be preceded, under the presumption of granting discretionary power to public officials in charge of welfare: means of identifying welfare blind spots by increasing or relocating the number of public officials in charge of welfare, along with the help of local leaders, postal workers, meter readers, etc.; complete abolition of the obligatory support standard; and structural and continuous efforts to eradicate poverty, such as measures to significantly increase the standard median income, etc. 56) Mother and two daughters committing suicide due to economic hardship in 2014. 57) Statement by the Korean People’s Solidarity Against Poverty, Aug. 24, 2022. 26