Simplified substitute payment: ceiling for a former employee
The state does not underwrite the whole debt. Wage-type arrears and retirement benefits each have their own ceiling, and the combined payment is capped below their sum — so the two component limits cannot be added together. Set by Enforcement Decree, which means it moves without the Act changing.
- Applies to
- Former employees whose arrears the state pays under the Wage Claim Guarantee Act, foreign nationals included
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-10-09₩10 million
Combined ceiling. The component limits are ₩7 million for covered wage-type arrears and ₩7 million for covered retirement benefits; a claimant cannot add them to reach ₩14 million. Still-employed claimants are capped separately.
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.