Simplified substitute payment: ceiling while still employed
₩7 millionKRW, wage-type arrears
Being still employed does not rule the scheme out, but it is a different door with a lower ceiling and its own conditions — including a wage test set against the minimum wage, which moves every January.
- Applies to
- Employees still in the job, who meet the separate eligibility test for arrears owed by their current employer
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-10-09₩7 million
Wage-related ceiling for a claimant still in employment. Eligibility carries additional restrictions that the former-employee route does not, so the lower cap is not the only difference.
Ministry of Employment and Labour — Labour Portal, unpaid wage resolution routes
One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.