The Federal Government says about 15 million vulnerable households have been captured in its Benefit Register for conditional cash assistance being implemented in partnership with the World Bank as part of efforts to cushion economic shocks.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard Doro, disclosed this during an interview on Arise Television on Friday. He explained that not all households listed in the National Social Register qualify for direct financial support.
He said, “We are currently offering conditional cash assistance in conjunction with the World Bank, but this money is actually meant as a shock response. And so not everyone within the 17.9 million households in the register is in the Benefit Register. The Benefit Register is around 15 million vulnerable households.”
Doro noted that the National Social Register currently contains about 17.9 million vulnerable households identified through community-based assessments and socio-economic data, but stressed that beneficiaries for specific interventions are selected separately based on programme objectives.
