Tuesday, August 24, 2021
This week, the Department of Social Protection issued weekly payments valued at €44.2 million to 149,436 people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The greatest reduction this week is in the Accommodation and Food Services sector. The...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the U.S. economy into a nosedive of unprecedented rapidity. Millions of workers have lost their jobs and are unable to work from home. GDP is plummeting, small business owners cannot meet their rent and other...
Monday, March 30, 2020
مع اقتحام فيروس كورونا الاراضي اللبنانية، وإعلان التعبئة العامة والحجر المنزلي في مواجهته، أصيب الجسم المستنزف للاقتصاد بشلل شبه كامل، على مستوى معظم مفاصله، ما أدى إلى حصول تداعيات معيشية مؤلمة وبالتالي تفاقم معدلات الفقر. وسعياً الى احتواء «العوارض...
Monday, September 23, 2019
BLOG: Universal health coverage is defined by the WHO as giving everybody access to health services that are of sufficient quality to be effective, without inflicting financial hardship as the price to pay for it.The concept is not a new one: it could be...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The Trump administration's new immigration rule has provided the federal government with expansive new grounds to bar people from receiving green cards for accessing public services such as Medi-Cal and food stamps.The announcement made by the Department...
Sunday, July 7, 2019
OPINION: Instead of widening the scope of the ESI scheme –scheme that delivers a measure of protection against illnesses – the government is tightening the noose around it.
The entrenched insurance lobby, which has already made deep forays into...
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced to raise social security pension by Rs 200 per month to Rs 2,000 per month, with the enhancement coming into effective Thursday. Old age pension, widow pension and Divyang pension have been...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) will spend Sh2 billion annually to enrol over 360,000 senior citizens by 2022. Dubbed the Health Insurance Subsidy Programme, the scheme is part of efforts to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC). It includes...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
O Plenário do Senado aprovou nesta terça-feira (7) o projeto de lei para assegurar o atendimento, no âmbito do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a famílias e indivíduos em situação de vulnerabilidade ou risco social sem a necessidade de comprovação de...
Thursday, August 10, 2017
The government will expand its state welfare subsidy program for some 890,000 people in the lowest income bracket beginning next year. The ministry will help about 930,000 such elderly with daily expenses, housing and medical expenses over the next three...