LE100 added to ration cards for 6 months to support poor citizens: PM

LE100 added to ration cards for 6 months to support poor citizens: PM

The government has taken some decisions to support the less well off citizens, as it has decided to add LE100 to each ration card per month for a period of six months, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, said, on Thursday.

A committee has been formed to determine the beneficiaries of the decision, he said, explaining that there are more than LE790 billion of budget allocations directed to subsidies.

Madbouly added, during a press conference after the government meeting, Thursday, that the country has a reserve of wheat sufficient for seven months.

Madbouly stated that the government has added one million new families to benefit from the “Takaful and Karama” program, thus bringing total beneficiaries of the program who will receive direct financial support to more than five million families.

Madbouly thanked civil society organizations, which are making an extraordinary effort, saying their contributions in 2021 amounted to LE3.5 billion, in many projects supporting the poor.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday instructed the government to take several urgent measures to confront the repercussions of the global economic crisis on the Egyptian citizen.

This came during Sisi’s meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, and several ministers.

Presidential spokesperson Bassam Rady said that the president directed the expansion of social