THE STANDARD By
Peter Theuri |
January 27th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Senior citizens queue for their monthly stipend at the Matungu-Sub-county headquarters in Kakamega County. Beneficiaries receive on average Sh2,000 monthly. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]
People aged 70 and above left out of past government cash disbursement programmes will now be considered in this year’s Sh3 trillion budget.
The National Treasury has at the same time come up with a social assistance fund to mobilise more resources to fund such programmes.
“(The ministry is) cognizant that elderly left out from the programme are affected, especially during difficult times of Covid-19,” says Treasury in the draft 2021 Budget Policy Statement.