NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 Article 1-4 Purpose and General Obligations 1 Disability classification system and comprehensive service support survey □ Current status and problems ㅇ In July 2019, the government improved the disability classification system by reducing from 6 grades to 2 grades, and it is gradually introducing comprehensive service support survey that considers the needs and environment of persons with disabilities in addition to medical standards in the order of 1st stage of daily life assistance(July 2019), 2nd stage of mobility assistance(October 2020) and 3rd stage of income and employment support(to be introduced). ㅇ However, the concept of disability under the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities is still based on a medical model, and evaluation items of the comprehensive service support survey in operation are also biased toward medical standards and evaluation of functional limitations, and it is evaluated that it does not contain the fundamental meaning of the reform of the disability classification system. ㅇ Evaluation of the comprehensive survey for daily life support services focuses on functional restrictions, and there are no measures that evaluate various social functional restrictions by considering differences between types of disabilities. Accordingly, persons with visual disabilities, persons with psychosocial disabilities as well as persons with multiple disabilities including those with visual and hearing disabilities are at a disadvantage in evaluation.1 ㅇ Comprehensive survey for mobile support services is also based on criteria for determining walking disabilities and persons with multiple disabilities are subject for additional applications. In addition, with regards to services for income, and employment support scheduled to be introduced this year, a method that divides people into medically severe disabilities, general disabilities and non-disabilities and makes people with general disabilities receive labor capacity evaluation again from the Korean Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities is being 6