SANGSAD BHABAN, June 25, 2019 (BSS) – Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed today said the government has planned to increase the insolvent disabled allowance to about 55 percent under the Social Safety Net Progarmme (SSNP) in fiscal 2019-20.
“The Social Safety Net Progarmme will be expanded. In fiscal 2019-20, the government plans to increase the old age allowance to 10 percent, while widow allowance to 21.43 percent and the insolvent disabled allowance to 54.5 percent under the SSNP,” he said while replying a tabled question placed by ruling party lawmaker Shamsun Nahar (women Seat-13 in the Jatiya Sangsad here.
Responding to another tabled question placed by treasury bench lawmaker Md Israfil Alam (Naogaon-6), Nuruzzaman informed the House that about 40 lakh beneficiaries got old age allowance in fiscal 2018-19, while around 14 lakh women received widow allowance and about 10 people got disabled allowance.
He said over Tk 22,100 crore were allocated under the Social Safety Net Progarmme in last 10 years.
The social welfare minister said a programme continues to set up a digital information storage inserting a list of the names of SSNP beneficiaries through the Management information System (MIS).