Starting tomorrow and for 10 days … the presidential scholarship to support irregular employment (details)

Tomorrow, Sunday, December 6, for a period of 10 consecutive days, the first batch of the second phase of the presidential subsidy to support irregular employment will begin, as announced by the Committee for the Support and Support of Workers Affected by the Economic Repercussions of the Coronavirus .

Prime Minister Dr. Mustafa Madbouly confirmed that the new payments fall within the framework of the implementation of the guidelines of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, to extend the disbursement period of the presidential grant awarded to support and support irregular employment in the face of the Corona pandemic as a second phase for a period of three months.

Several meetings were held for the committee to support and support workers affected by the economic repercussions of the Coronavirus, and the committee took all preparatory measures to start disbursing the planned subsidy, and coordinated with Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, to agree with mobile telephone companies to send text messages to irregular workers registered in the databases, in order to urge them to update their data in the form designed by the Support Center to the Information and Decisions of the Council of Ministers, as available on the website of the Ministry of Manpower From October 8 to 15.

The commission indicated that the number of workers who updated their data amounted to about 6 million workers. This motivated the committee to audit and apply eligibility criteria for disbursement and to carry out purification work again, and after the committee assumed the application of standards in coordination with the Administrative Control Authority to audit and review the data, the number of who are entitled to the disbursement of the stipulated subsidy reached 2 million 260 thousand workers, and those who are entitled to disbursement will be distributed “by stage.” The second “Of the total number of disbursement recipients according to the nature of the grant applicant as follows: 690 thousand workers received support earlier in the first phase, 110 thousand workers who entered the first phase and did not meet the disbursement conditions As a consequence of the incorrect registration of the national number, and they updated their data in the second phase, Of the 96,000 workers who requested modernization during the second phase, 60,541 thousand workers met the conditions, of the 451 thousand workers who filed complaints for non-payment during the first phase, in addition to 1.4 million workers who applied for the subsidy for the first time.

And Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning and Economic Development and rapporteur for the committee, said that preserving employment represents preserving the national economy to overcome the current crisis, noting the committee’s enthusiasm for implementing state instructions and ensuring that the right of workers affected by Corona’s repercussions is not wasted.

Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, urged the recipients of the presidential grant not to go to the specified exchange points until after receiving a text message on the mobile phone, indicating that they would come on a date determined to disburse the subsidy, in order to preserve their security and in implementation of precautionary measures to face the Corona virus, as established Announced on the Egyptian Prime Minister’s Facebook page.