More than 1 million Kazakhstan citizens will receive payments for food and household sets
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan has developed and adopted an order providing for the payment of funds for food and household sets for July of this year. Kazakhstanis will start receiving payments to bank cards from July 20 of this year. Until the end of the month.
The recipients will be citizens belonging to 5 social groups at the time the order comes into force. Local executive bodies, based on the available data, will form a list of persons who are entitled to receive food and household sets. After that, recipients will receive an amount of 2 MCI for the month of July, for the period of the restrictive measures.
The 5 social groups include the following categories of persons:
- children aged 6 to 18, from among the recipients of targeted social assistance;
- disabled children up to 16 years old, with the exception of disabled people permanently residing in medical and social institutions;
- invalids of I, II, III groups of all ages, with the exception of invalids permanently residing in medical and social institutions;
- personsupbringing a disabled child;
- unemployed citizens registered with the local employment agency.
As previously reported, in order to exclude direct contact of people in order to minimize the risks of coronavirus infection, food and household kits were replaced with a commensurate payment of at least 2 MCI, transferred to the recipients' bank cards.
In the period from March to May of 2020, these payments were accrued to 1 million people for 13.5 billion tenge.
Recall that on July 14, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan AskarMamin at a Government meeting instructed the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan to start paying Kazakhstanis money for food and household sets.
The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-ZhomartTokayev, instructed to strengthen measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection. To support the people of Kazakhstan who were left without income, benefits, one-time payments were paid, including food and household sets.