Sunday, December 31, 2017
The Citizen Account program allows Saudi women to enlist themselves as family providers under certain conditions. In cases where the husband is not a Saudi, if he is absent, imprisoned or held in a social care home and if she has been deserted...
Friday, December 29, 2017
Residents of Ontario, Canada’s largest and most affluent province, will see a wide-ranging spike in their social benefits beginning Monday. The changes include a hike in the minimum wage (to $14 an hour from its current $11.60 an hour), free...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has moved to end its battles with five single mothers after they were profiled in a number of CBC News stories. Four out of five parents featured in articles and broadcasts since November said they received calls from...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
The World Bank approved today a $80 million International Development Association (IDA)* credit to help the Government of Rwanda improve the effectiveness of its social protection system, notably the flagship Vision 2020 Umurenge Program (VUP...
Sunday, December 17, 2017
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Saturday approved a policy for the social upliftment of transgenders in the state by offering them pensions, ration cards, housing sites and other financial assistance for business activities. As per the transgender policy,...
Sunday, December 17, 2017
TOI discovered that pensions of over 53,000 disabled, elderly and widows in Uttarakhand had been stopped since October 2016 as they had not submitted Aadhaar details. According to documents accessed by this paper, out of 59,081 people who draw...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Social protection programs have had a slow roll out in Mon State, where only one-quarter of the planned projects have been implemented over the last three years according to the state’s head of social affairs. In the time since the National Social...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
The Israeli government has promised a total of 4.2 billion shekels (a little over one billion euros) to go towards Disability Benefits. The revised benefits will be introduced gradually. In 2021, the most severely disabled should see their monthly...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Saudi Arabia will begin cash transfers to low and middle income citizens this month, part of efforts to cushion the blow for families as the kingdom overhauls its oil-dependent economy. The Cabinet approved the so-called Citizen's Account...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Punjab Social Protection Authority (PSPA) has successfully mobilized the third batch of beneficiaries of Khadim-e-Punjab's Zewar-e-Taleem Programme following which as many as 80,000 schoolgirls have been issued Khidmat Card.
Now the total number of...