{"id":63704,"date":"2020-04-07T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63704"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:06:06","slug":"emergency-cash-assistance-payments-12mn-families-begins-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/emergency-cash-assistance-payments-12mn-families-begins-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Cash Assistance Payments to 12mn families begins this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar informed on Sunday that Emergency Cash Assistance Payments to 12 million families under the Ehsaas program would start on Wednesday (April 8), a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/province-wide-disinfection-launched-sindh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"COVID-19 pandemic: Province-wide disinfection spray campaign launched in Sindh (opens in a new tab)\">COVID-19 pandemic: Province-wide disinfection spray campaign launched in Sindh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, she informed a press conference that PKR 12,000 per household would be distributed among each of the 12 million needy households to assist them during the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nadra-offers-services-sindh-govt-identifying-citizens-left-jobless-covid-19-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NADRA offers services to Sindh govt for identifying citizens left jobless due to COVID-19 pandemic (opens in a new tab)\">NADRA offers services to Sindh govt for identifying citizens left jobless due to COVID-19 pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nishtar informed that it was a one-time assistance and the government approved PKR 144 billion for the said assistance programme. She said that millions of messages had been received on 8171 regarding the payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-seeks-nadra-ndmas-data-initiate-relief-work-offset-covid-19-economic-impact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sindh seeks NADRA, NDMA\u2019s data to initiate relief work to offset COVID-19 economic impact (opens in a new tab)\">Sindh seeks NADRA, NDMA\u2019s data to initiate relief work to offset COVID-19 economic impact<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nishtar highlighted that the cash assistance would be disbursed in a rule-based, transparent manner. The people who will send messages seeking assistance will receive one of the three responses: ineligible, eligible, and contact your department administration, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-establishes-coronavirus-emergency-fund-account.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sindh establishes Coronavirus Emergency Fund Account (opens in a new tab)\">Sindh establishes Coronavirus Emergency Fund Account<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nishtar revealed that quotas had been established for all federating units, including Azad Kashmir and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gb-see-plantation-one-million-trees-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gilgit-Baltistan (GB)  (opens in a new tab)\">Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) <\/a>as per the population census. Punjab has allocated additional assistance funds for 700,000 people and Sindh has earmarked 250,000 people for financial assistance, she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar informed on Sunday that Emergency Cash Assistance Payments to 12 million families under the Ehsaas program would start on Wednesday (April 8), a news source reported. Read: COVID-19 pandemic: Province-wide disinfection spray campaign launched in Sindh As per the publication, she informed a press conference that PKR 12,000 per household would be distributed among each of the 12 million needy households to assist them during the COVID-19 lockdown. Read: NADRA offers services to Sindh govt for identifying citizens left jobless due to COVID-19 pandemic Nishtar informed that it was a one-time assistance and the government approved PKR 144 billion for the said assistance programme. She said that millions of messages had been received on 8171 regarding the payment. Read: Sindh seeks NADRA, NDMA\u2019s data to initiate relief work to offset COVID-19 economic impact Nishtar highlighted that the cash assistance would be disbursed in a rule-based, transparent manner. The people who will send messages seeking assistance will receive one of the three responses: ineligible, eligible, and contact your department administration, she added. Read: Sindh establishes Coronavirus Emergency Fund Account Nishtar revealed that quotas had been established for all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":60327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15020],"tags":[25374,25373,25372,25375,25371],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63704","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-covid-19-lockdown","10":"tag-ehsaas-program","11":"tag-emergency-cash-assistance-payments","12":"tag-gilgit-baltistan-gb","13":"tag-special-assistant-to-prime-minister-pm-on-poverty-alleviation-dr-sania-nishtar","14":"cat-15017-id","15":"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>Emergency Cash Assistance Payments to 12mn families - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar informed on Sunday that Emergency Cash Assistance Payments\" \/>\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\/emergency-cash-assistance-payments-12mn-families-begins-week.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Emergency Cash Assistance Payments to 12mn families - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar informed on Sunday that Emergency Cash Assistance Payments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/emergency-cash-assistance-payments-12mn-families-begins-week.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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