“This project is an innovative institutional mechanism to support the purchasing power of families, increase the schooling rate and social assistance for the benefit of families, the elderly and people with disabilities,” said Mr. Akhannouch during the meeting of the Government Council on Thursday.
Mr. Akhannouch added that this program based on the efficient and effective targeting of families in precarious situations, backed by the Unified Social Register (RSU), “will have several positive repercussions including the improvement of social and human development indicators, the reduction of poverty and precariousness rates, the contribution to the consecration of solidarity between generations and the reduction of financial burdens which weigh on families caring for elderly people.”
To successfully implement this important project, Mr. Achannouch noted that the Government Council examined today, within the framework of legal and organizational measures, two draft laws relating to the direct social assistance system and the creation of the national social support agency.
He stressed in this regard that the government has interacted with seriousness and a great sense of responsibility with the Royal Social Protection Project, giving it, since its establishment, great importance and ensuring its implementation in accordance with the Royal agenda, noting that the Executive succeeded at the end of 2022 in generalizing medical coverage.
Continuing on this same dynamic, and in application of the High Royal Instructions, this year will see the launch of the direct social assistance program which will make it possible to set up a social shield for the benefit of the target categories, he added, noting that the value of the direct social assistance will not be less than 500 dirhams for each targeted family, whatever its composition.
Mr. Akhannouch called on this occasion on members of the government and the services under their departments to work efficiently to bring this unprecedented national project to fruition and ensure its implementation while ensuring that the targeted families benefit from it from the end of the current year, in accordance with the High Guidelines of HM King Mohammed VI, may God assist Him.
At the beginning of the work of this Government Council, Mr. Akhannouch recalled the launch, yesterday Wednesday, in application of the High Royal Directives, of the operation of distribution of the second tranche (2,500) of financial aid intended for families affected following the Al Haouz earthquake, knowing that the first tranche (20,000 dirhams) of aid intended for the reconstruction of totally or partially collapsed housing, will be made available to beneficiaries next Tuesday, in order to support the progress of construction work.
Mr. Akhannouch also did not fail to praise the colossal efforts deployed by the various ministerial departments concerned within the framework of the operation to reconstruct the provinces affected by the earthquake, stressing that the government is working seriously and efficiently to implement the various axes of the reconstruction and general rehabilitation program of the areas affected by the Al Haouz earthquake, in execution of the High Royal Guidelines.
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