Cash Transfer 2023/2024: FG Begins Payment of 200,000 Households

Cash Transfer Application Form Portal – This is to inform the public that the federal government has commenced the payment of  200,000 Nigerians through cash transfer.

The Federal Government is set to commence cash payments to 200,000 Nigerians. The beneficiaries of the National Social Safety Net Programme are urban poor senior citizens that do not have access to regular income and are impacted by COVID-19. See how to register online below.

 

This post is all about the ongoing Cash Transfer Programme by Federal Government, towards the end of this article, you will know more about the program and how to register online.

NCTO through the Household Uplifting Programme provides support for poor and vulnerable citizens through targeted cash transfers, capacity building, and coaching and mentoring, and livelihood support.

FG begins payment of Cash Transfer Programme to 200,000 Nigerians Iowa Apera, Coordinator, National Social Safety Net Programme, made the announcement on Monday in Abuja. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management official said identified citizens were authenticated by their respective communities.

We noted that 4 percent of 35 million poor and vulnerable persons in the national register in 36 states and the FCT were elderly persons.

Two million individuals categorized as senior citizens were aggregated by location, education, age, status, disability, and sxxx.

With the State Cash Transfer Units (SCTUs) and Local Government Desk Offices (LGDOs) across the implementing states, NCTO is positioned to serve the poor and vulnerable better.

Social safety-nets are part of broader social protection systems comprising non-contributory transfers in cain-kind kind, designed to provide support for the poor and vulnerable. Social safety-netsseveralber of important roles.

For example, they help alleviate poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition; they contribute by reducing inequality and boosting shared prosperity; they support households in coping with shocks; they help build human capital and connect people to a job opportunity, and; and they are an important factor in shaping social contract between the government and citizens.

In N, Nigeria the flagship programs that are targeted to help the poor and vulnerable include the National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO), implementing cash transfers to targeted vulnerable households; Youth Empowerment and Social Support Operations (YESSO), supporting vulnerable youths with life skills training, grants, and reorientation; and the Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) providing grants to boost the development agenda of vulnerable communities. These programs were encapsulated in the Government of Nigeria National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP).

Interested applicants should visit the program Page, https://ncto.gov.ng/