2024-08-04 13:03:41
This draft decree aims to apply the provisions of Law No. 58.23 relating to direct social assistance, in particular Articles 2, 7, 8, 12 and 13, indicated the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, government spokesperson, Mustapha Baitas, during a press briefing following the Council.
These articles concern the determination of the head of the family who is supposed to receive the child risk protection allowances and the lump sum assistance, the procedures for submitting applications to benefit from the direct social assistance program, the procedures and deadlines for submitting claims, the procedures for verifying the eligibility of families for this program and the setting of the amounts of the allowances and the procedures for their payment, explained Mr. Baitas.
And to add that the said articles also set the period of declaration to the social security system provided for by point 2 of the first paragraph of article 7 of the same law, as well as the degree of disability allowing one to benefit from the supplementary aid relating to disability.
According to this draft decree, the head of the family, concerning child risk protection assistance, is understood to mean – in order of priority – the husband, the person providing custody, the person providing Kafala and the legal guardian, while for the flat-rate assistance, the head of the family is defined as the person who registered the family in the Unified Social Register (RSU).
The law also determines the amounts of child risk protection allowances and lump sum assistance, Baitas noted, adding that these amounts are divided according to the total sum of the monthly allowance, the amounts of the supplementary allowance reserved for orphans on the father’s side and children with disabilities, as well as the birth bonus and the lump sum allowance.
Under the same draft decree, these amounts will be revised upwards in 2024 and 2025 to stabilize in 2026, the minimum threshold of the amounts paid to each beneficiary family being set at 500 DH monthly, specified the Minister Delegate, noting that these amounts will be directly transferred to the account of the head of the family opened with banks or approved payment institutions.
Regarding the procedures for submitting applications to benefit from direct social assistance, Mr. Baitas stressed that the draft decree stipulates that the head of the family must submit the application to the National Social Assistance Agency, via a dedicated electronic platform.
The head of the family will be informed of the aid he will benefit from by all available means, including electronically, he stressed, specifying that in the event of rejection of the application, he can make a complaint to the same Agency on the same platform, within a period not exceeding 15 days from the date of notification of the rejection.
2024-08-04 13:03:41