The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, says urban poor dwellers with an account balance of N5,000 or less will be among the beneficiaries of the Federal Government Conditional Cash Transfer scheme.
The minister made this known when she answered questions from the State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. She stated that the prospective beneficiaries would be part of the additional one million households approved by President Muhammadu Buhari to boost the nation’s social register.
President Buhari had on Monday in a broadcast directed that the current social register be expanded from 2.6 million households to 3.6 million households in the next two weeks.
The president said that the expansion of the social register was part of the palliative measures to address the hardship being experienced by the poor and vulnerable members of the society as a result of the extension of the lockdown order.
The minister, who had earlier updated the president on the activities of her ministry, revealed that those saddled with the responsibility of carrying out the president’s directive on the expansion of the social register would focus more on the urban poor.
The minister further explained that apart from the National Social Register, the Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) and previous records of purchases of recharge cards by mobile phone owners would form parts of criteria in identifying the beneficiaries of the cash transfer.
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Please l have not received my own alert, please l need the money to buy food stuff for my kids,God bless you all as you are remember the needy, thanks.Account number:3131911498, FIRST BANK, Account name: DIMANYAOHA PERPETUAL CHIUGO,thanks
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