Incheon City to Reimburse 50-70% of Public Transportation Fares for Parents of Newborns

Starting from October 1, Incheon City will expand its public transportation fare support for households with newborn children.

On September 16, the city announced the launch of the "i-Plus (i+) Fare Dream" program, which adds benefits for parents of newborns to the existing "Incheon I-Pass" public transportation discount policy. Under this program, parents who have a child will receive a 50% Incheon I-Pass reimbursement rate for their first child and a 70% reimbursement rate for their second child and beyond, for up to seven years.

As a result, parents residing in Incheon who have registered the birth of their child on or after January 1 of this year will be eligible to receive a monthly reimbursement of 50% to 70% of the public transportation fares they use until the year before their child enters elementary school.

Incheon City Hall

The Incheon I-Pass, introduced last year for all city residents, is a public transportation discount policy covering buses and subways, offering a 20% reimbursement on public transportation fares (30% for young adults and 53% for low-income residents).

To apply for the public transportation fare support for households with newborns, parents must first obtain a government-issued K-Pass transportation card, then register the card number and sign up as a member on the K-Pass website. Existing Incheon I-Pass users must also apply separately on the K-Pass website to receive the newly introduced support benefits for households with newborns.

Advance applications will be accepted starting at 9 a.m. on September 25.

Following the first transportation welfare policy, "Incheon I-Pass," and the second, "Metropolitan I-Pass," the city has now introduced the third policy, "i-Plus (i+) Fare Dream," to help reduce the cost of living for citizens during this period of high inflation.

An Incheon City official stated, "This program is a customized transportation welfare policy based on the unlimited public transportation benefits of the 'Incheon I-Pass,' which has been in operation since last year. We expect it to ease the transportation cost burden for parents of newborns and contribute to increasing the birth rate."