{"id":63442,"date":"2020-03-31T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63442"},"modified":"2020-03-31T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:52:02","slug":"covid-19-govt-relaxes-ehsaas-emergency-cash-program-criteria-accommodate-more-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-govt-relaxes-ehsaas-emergency-cash-program-criteria-accommodate-more-citizens.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Govt relaxes Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program criteria to accommodate more citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The federal government recently announced its decision to relax the eligibility criteria for the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme, a news source reported. As per the publication, this measure would provide greater facilitation to deserving applicants looking for monetary security during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-introduces-ehsaas-emergency-cash-programme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt to support coronavirus affectees through Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme (opens in a new tab)\">Govt to support coronavirus affectees through Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan initiated the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme as part of his announced relief package for the underprivileged affected by the coronavirus infection outbreak in the country. Approved for 10 million people, the government planned to provide PKR 12,000 per family under the Ehsaas Programme. Now the government is targeting around 67 million people. Among these, it will prioritise daily wage earners and labourers that were not previously meeting the programme\u2019s eligibility criteria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently the Ehsaas Programme has three categories. The government\nplans to relax the criteria upwards for the second category, which involves people\nwho previously earned up to PKR 20,000 and are now jobless due to the impact of\nthe coronavirus infection\noutbreak. Meanwhile, the Ehsaas Kafaalat beneficiaries, who are all women, will\nreceive an extra PKR 1,000 stipend on top of the existing PKR 2,000 allowance for\nthe next four months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the government will be identifying people for the aforementioned programs through SMS \u2014 allowing people not already enrolled to seek assistance from the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme. It will then start assessing the SMSs received back. The authorities will use data analytics to ensure that the programme isn\u2019t abused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-award-50000-scholarships-undergraduates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PM to award 50,000 scholarships to undergrads under Ehsaas initiative (opens in a new tab)\">PM to award 50,000 scholarships to undergrads under Ehsaas initiative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government will then proceed with forwarding the CNICs\nof those declared eligible for its income programs, to its partner banks. In addition,\nSMS messages will be sent to the selected citizens \u2014 directing them to collect\ntheir payments from the nearest branch of their designated bank. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The federal government recently announced its decision to relax the eligibility criteria for the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme, a news source reported. As per the publication, this measure would provide greater facilitation to deserving applicants looking for monetary security during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Read: Govt to support coronavirus affectees through Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan initiated the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme as part of his announced relief package for the underprivileged affected by the coronavirus infection outbreak in the country. Approved for 10 million people, the government planned to provide PKR 12,000 per family under the Ehsaas Programme. Now the government is targeting around 67 million people. Among these, it will prioritise daily wage earners and labourers that were not previously meeting the programme\u2019s eligibility criteria. Currently the Ehsaas Programme has three categories. The government plans to relax the criteria upwards for the second category, which involves people who previously earned up to PKR 20,000 and are now jobless due to the impact of the coronavirus infection outbreak. Meanwhile, the Ehsaas Kafaalat beneficiaries, who are all women, will receive an extra PKR 1,000 stipend on top of the existing PKR 2,000 allowance for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15020],"tags":[24683],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-details-on-covid-19-govt-relaxes-ehsaas-emergency-cash-program-criteria-to-accommodate-more-citizens","10":"cat-15017-id","11":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: Govt relaxes Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program criteria to accommodate more citizens - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The federal government recently announced its decision to relax the eligibility criteria for the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-govt-relaxes-ehsaas-emergency-cash-program-criteria-accommodate-more-citizens.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: Govt relaxes Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program criteria to accommodate more citizens - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The federal government recently announced its decision to relax the eligibility criteria for the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-govt-relaxes-ehsaas-emergency-cash-program-criteria-accommodate-more-citizens.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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