The Government has reinforced the direct social assistance program with a set of social programs, notably the generalization of medical coverage (4.2 million families benefiting from AMO Tadamon) and the housing assistance program (330,000 families out of 3 years), as well as the announcement of salary increases for civil servants and employees in the public and private sectors under the April round of social dialogue, which will make it possible to improve the purchasing power of more of 4 million families Moroccans, indicates the Management in a press release.
Thus, the butane gas subsidy will be decompensated, with an increase of 2.5 dirhams in the price of the 3 kg gas bottle and 10 dirhams for that of 12 kg.
According to the press release, the reform of the partial butane gas price subsidy system comes within the framework of the implementation of the direct social assistance program (3.6 million beneficiary families until last April) on the basis of the principle of more effective targeting of households eligible for social support through the unified social register.
In this wake, the implementation of the overall reform of the social protection system will continue, through the implementation of framework law n°09.21 relating to social protection, published in the official bulletin on March 23, 2021 , and whose article 8 stipulates that the direct social assistance program is financed by the generalization and compilation of the different social programs, in addition to the progressive reform of the compensation system, at a time when the government has dedicated 80 billion dirhams by 2026 to finance all social programs, in addition to the implementation of the recommendations of social dialogue, such as the increase in the salaries of civil servants and employees, adds the same source.