Starting tomorrow, 3 Bansos will be distributed, anything? All pages

KOMPAS.com – The government through the Ministry of Social Affairs will distribute three types of social assistance (Bansos) on Monday (1/4/2021).

The director general of the Ministry of Social Affairs for the Management of the Poor (PFM) Asep Sasa Purnama said that the 2021 social assistance distribution program will be carried out directly by President Joko Widodo.

“God willing, there will be a 2021 social assistance distribution event by the president on January 4, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. in the Presidential Palace. We are currently preparing for the event,” Asep said when contacted. Kompas.com, Sunday (1/3/2021) morning.

What are the three welfare programs that will be distributed tomorrow?

The three social assistance programs are:

• Family Hope Program (PKH)
• Basic feeding program
• Cash Social Assistance (BST).

In total, there are about 38.8 million beneficiaries of the three grants.

“For PKH 10 million KPM, Basic Food Program / BPNT up to 18.8 million KPM and BST 10 million KPM,” he explained.

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Dispensing mechanism

Asep said the PKH distribution process and the basic food programs would be carried out by Himbara through an account, while BST would be distributed to KPM through the postal mechanism.

For PKH, it will target a number of groups, such as families in which there are pregnant women, early childhood, school-age children, people with disabilities, the elderly.

This assistance is provided in four stages over a period of one year, namely January, April, July and October.

Meanwhile, beneficiaries of the basic food program will receive assistance worth 200,000 IDR and it will be distributed from January to December 2021.

Especially for residents of Jabodetabek who initially received basic food assistance, from 2021 they will no longer receive the same assistance and will be replaced by direct cash assistance.

For the cash welfare program, each cash welfare recipient will receive 300,000 cash IDRs that will be delivered over four consecutive months, January through April 2021.

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Don’t use welfare to buy cigarettes

Earlier, Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharini reminded all aid recipients not to use social assistance money to buy cigarettes.

This is a direct instruction from President Jokowi.

If a recipient of aid is caught buying cigarettes with welfare money, the government will not hesitate to conduct an assessment.

“We will discuss, if this mechanism occurs, then we will make an evaluation for the recipients of the aid. Because once again, don’t let this aid be for health but then there is a problem because it is used for cigarettes, ”said Risma.

Related to this, Risma continued, his party will prepare a tool to find out what beneficiaries spend with money from social assistance.

“We hope once again because it will affect the plans that the government has carried out, not later by buying cigarettes and then getting sick,” he said.

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