Why Newly Registered Inua Jamii Cash Members Don’t Receive Sh2,000 Monthly Stipend
Over 500,000 elderly persons and people with disabili07257705380725241826ties who had applied to be enlisted in the Inua Jamii Scale-up Programme last year will have to wait a little longer before they receive their monthly stipend.
According to the Nyeri County Director of Children’s Services Kung’u Mwaniki only those currently captured under the Government Consolidated Cash Transfer Program Management Information System (CCTPMIS) received disbursement for December.
Kung’u, however, hastened to add that individuals who had applied to be considered for the national social security funding will soon receive notifications once the State finalizes computing all the applications.
He revealed that the process of capturing their details in the system database is ongoing.
However, for those who had applied for consideration last year, we are yet to receive notification with regard to the status of their applications.
This means they will have to wait until such a time when we get confirmation in regard to the beneficiaries who will be considered for the next phase.
By the end of last year, Nyeri had registered a total of 26,606 new applicants for the Inua Jamii programme that had officially closed on September 30.
The government rolled out a nationwide registration exercise on September 1 last year to widen the bracket of needy individuals on State social security support.
A total of 500,000 Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and Persons with Severe Disabilities (PWSDs) had been targeted in the listing.
In Nyeri, the government had targeted a total of 3,952 new beneficiaries for the OVC and PWSDs, but this figure has surpassed the initial projection by 3,280 persons.
Some 1,044,922 Inua Jamii beneficiaries across the country are expected to benefit from the Sh2.08 billion that has been released by the state for the social welfare program, according to CS Bore.
However, beneficiaries under the Older Persons Cash Transfer (OP-CT) program will continue receiving their money through their respective bank accounts.
The state began disbursing funds for the Inua Jamii cash transfer program on a monthly basis last year to address perennial backlogs that had turned out to be an added pain for the intended beneficiaries.
The move came at a time when beneficiaries on the social safety net had been forced to wait for months before receiving the dues.
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