The government will increase its support for low income working people by three-point-six times to nearly five trillion won next year.

According to the government's tax spending plans for 2019 submitted to the National Assembly, earned income tax credit, a state subsidy for working people with low to moderate income, will be increased from one-point-34 trillion won this year to four-point-nine trillion won next year.

The sum exceeds the originally planned three-point-eight trillion won that the government planned to give to around three-point-three million households.

A Finance Ministry official said that the increase is attributed to changes in the payment methods of the subsidy program.