This article is about the change in education expenses for the National Tomorrow Learning Card nursing care worker certificate. Although the Ministry of Employment and Labor has not yet issued an official press release, I would like to summarize that today’s contents are important because the official letter has already been posted by the relevant educational institutions and local governments. 요양보호사 자격증 국비지원
People’s Tomorrow Learning Card
I’m sure many people are aware of the “National Tomorrow Learning Card.” It is a very good system for the Ministry of Employment and Labor to provide support for training (up to 3 to 5 million won (45 to 85 percent of the training fee) so that people can conduct vocational competency development training on their own. jasminevista.com
People’s Tomorrow Learning Card – Issuance – Exclusion
People’s Tomorrow Learning Card – Issuance – Exclusion
Except for some of the applicants, anyone in the country can apply and benefit from it. That’s why many middle-aged job seekers in their 40s and 60s have obtained certificates for nursing care workers and child care workers at low costs through this Tomorrow Learning Card. 
Training expenses for nursing care worker certificates
Training costs between 700,000 and 800,000 won for nursing care worker certificates. In the meantime, I was able to receive about 45% of government subsidies through tomorrow’s learning card. So, I was able to obtain a certificate from as little as 300,000 won to as much as 500,000 won, including all teaching materials.
In the case of child care qualifications, it is not yet a national qualification, so until last year, it was possible to complete the training with full state funding through tomorrow’s learning card without any burden of self-payment.
There has been a change in the grateful Tomorrow Learning Card from 2024. However, the prevailing opinion is that the new method will not be helpful in the education of nursing care workers and child care workers, which are representative certificates in the field of care services.
Change of state funding conditions for nursing care workers
So far, as I said earlier, we have been able to complete the nursing care worker curriculum with 45% of state funding through the National Tomorrow Learning Card.
In the future, the cost of obtaining a qualification will be much higher as tomorrow’s learning card will not be very effective unlike before (in obtaining a nursing care certificate and applying for a child care training).
▣ Refund after prepayment
Once you apply for training for nursing care workers by issuing a tomorrow learning card until 2023, there was no big burden on you. However, from this year in 2024, students must pay 90% of the training fee in advance, get a job in the care service sector within six months, start a business, and work for more than six months to receive a refund of the advance payment.
However, the important point here is that education has been strengthened since this year, with the training course for nursing care workers drastically increasing from the current 240 hours of education to 320 hours.
Therefore, it is very natural that the cost of the academy will increase more than it is now because the nursing care worker education center has to increase the number of instructors and textbooks according to the increased training hours.
Therefore, from this year, most nursing home education centers should expect about 1 million won. This can be considered based on the fact that the Ministry of Employment and Labor has set an upper limit of 1 million won for training at related educational institutions.
Then, the conclusion is that those who wish to obtain a nursing care worker license in the future should pay 90% of the education expenses of about 1 million won in advance, that is, about 900,000 won.
Child Care-Education
Child Care-Education
Also, babysitter or child care training has been available for free through tomorrow’s learning card so far, but it will change to cost money in the future.
Reason for change
So, what is the reason for this sudden change? The Ministry of Employment and Labor emphasized that it is an inevitable result for practical employment connections and manpower. On December 22, 2023, the Ministry of Employment and Labor sent an official letter to educational institutions in charge of nursing care workers and child care education, including the advance payment of training expenses for tomorrow’s learning card.
Among the official documents, specialized training will be newly established to curb the demand for training in the care service sector and induce employment in the same field after training, and to this end, we designed a support system that pays a high level of training first, receives training, and then refunds the full amount of the advance payment for a certain period of time after employment in the same job.
In other words, we can understand that the government has implemented this system change from the perspective that taxes are wasted because there are too many people who only obtain certificates and do not get jobs.
I’ll give you a refund, so is there any problem?
If you look at the purpose of the government, it’s not that it’s very incomprehensible. Currently, nearly 3 million people are licensed as nursing care workers, of which about 500,000 are estimated to be working in long-term care facilities.
In this situation, the government decided that there were too many people who would not be employed even if they provided education expenses. (It is true that it is supported by the people’s tax!) That’s why I think they came up with these measures. Care service education institutions are naturally opposed.
He suddenly notified me of the system change without taking the time to listen to the voices of the field in advance. Therefore, we are currently asking for consent, such as filing a petition with a public consent petition.
Are there any relationships between job seekers, facility heads, and workers?
Then, I will briefly summarize whether it has nothing to do with middle-aged job seekers in their 40s and 60s who are thinking about finding a job right away, the head of a facility that runs a nursing institution, and the workers currently working in the institution.
① Bad news for those looking for work in care services
First, of course, it is bad news for those who want to find a job in caring services. Many 4060 trainees must have a lot of full-time housewives. There must be a lot of people who are in a bad financial situation at the store recently, but I think it will be burdensome to suddenly pay about 900,000 won in advance for education.
Since then, there is a condition that you have to work for more than six months after getting a job in order to receive a refund of your out-of-pocket expenses, so in reality, you have to wait about a year to receive a refund of your out-of-pocket expenses.
② It is also not good for those who wish to obtain a certificate for family care.
Second, people who tried to obtain a certificate in advance to use it when needed in the future, such as family care or child care, will feel more burdened by education, even if they are not employed immediately.