The Minister of Social Affairs of the National Unity Government, Wafa Al-Kilani, said that the ministry is working hard to complete the infrastructure for the paying the allowance of wives and over-18 girls, after the Ministry’s successful disbursement of all children’s allowances under the age of 18 for the year 2021.
She explained that the under-18 children’s allowance was the closest category to disbursment. By the end of 2021, the ministry had been able to complete the payment of children’s allowances for all months of the year to all eligible persons. The allowances of the remaining categories which are women and girls over the age of 18, were not ready to be disbursed by the infrastructure database.
Wafa El-Kilani confirmed that the ministry has been working for months to process the database infrastructure for the categories of women and above-18 girls in order to find out who does not get a state salary and so, is entitled to the allowance.
This requires the cooperation of all parties, including the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Higher Education, the Civil Registry and the Department of Passports and Nationality.
The minister of Social Affairs pointed out that the ministry officials are working hard to achieve the second phase of the project and to complete setting the allowances of the wives and over-18 girls, without defining a date for its payment , which had so far been delayed by almost 10 months without being disbursed to the beneficiaries. It had indicated that last year it had disbursed 4 billion and 255 million dinars to cover the children’s grant under the age of 18 for all quarters of 2021, out of the Government’s estimated value of 4 billion and 412 million dinars for that purpose.