Over 153,000 households have received COVID grant – Persaud
A total of 153,376 households have received a $25,000 cash grant from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Protection as part of the government’s COVID-19 relief effort while 16,365 secondary households have received a “pink slip” as a government promissory note of a second visit.
This was revealed just prior to the approval yesterday by the National Assembly of an additional $2.5 billion in funds to bolster the programme in Region Four. The programme is reportedly nearing completion in the nine other regions.
Minister Vindhya Persaud revealed to the House at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre that of this number, 8,124 of the recipients were from Region One, 13,675 from Region Two, 44,097 from Region Three, 20,857 from Region Five, 3,509 in Region Six, 752 in Region Seven, 364 in Region Eight, 7,503 in Region Nine and 13,996 in Region 10.
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