The Ministry of Community Development relies on a number of legal standards when studying applications submitted to it for social security assistance, the details of which it announced with clear explanations through its smart and electronic channels. These standards are determined based on clear provisions in Federal Law No. (2) of 2001 related to social security.
The Ministry considers the applications submitted to it, taking into account the circumstances and changes that occur in the lives and capabilities of the beneficiaries. During the past two months, for example, the Ministry agreed to increase the value of social assistance to about 159 beneficiaries of assistance, that is, in the period that witnessed a lot of psychological and social pressures in the wake of the spread of the pandemic. corona
The most important matters related to the terms and conditions for disbursing financial social aid, as well as the reasons for rejecting assistance requests in terms of age groups, medical conditions, and social conditions eligible for aid, can be summarized as follows:
1- The applicant for assistance can file a grievance if the aid committee rejects his application, once every six months after obtaining the result of the application.
2- An unmarried female citizen under the age of 35 can apply for social assistance, and she can obtain it provided that she has a share of the father’s retirement pension, and that her request is subject to study by the Aid Committee.
3- The beneficiary cannot take a bank loan guaranteed by social assistance, because there is a difference between salary and assistance. The salary is given to the employee in exchange for his effort and time, while assistance is a grant from the government without charge, and stops if any changes occur in the family’s financial circumstances.
4- The beneficiary’s right to the due amount shall be forfeited if he does not spend it after three months. His right to assistance will be permanently forfeited if the owner does not claim it within six months from the date the amount is disbursed to him, unless he presents an excuse acceptable to the Aid Committee.
5- Women who do not wish to go to court to obtain proof of non-marriage or work can go to the offices of the Ministry concerned with Social Affairs to obtain the required documents, on the days specified by the Ministry.
6- Divorced women and non-citizen widows are entitled to social assistance, provided that she has a custodian for one of her citizen children within the country, and this is proven by a custody certificate issued by one of the Sharia courts in the country.
7- The value of the deceased father’s retirement pension is deducted from the social assistance granted to the children, because the retirement pension is considered income for the beneficiary, so it is deducted from the value of the assistance except in exceptional cases.
8- It is not permissible to withhold social assistance except in implementation of a court ruling requiring adjudicated maintenance for a family member who benefits from the provisions of the law, and not to exceed half of the assistance due and within the limits of the amounts determined for each individual.
9- Failure to inform immediately of changes that occur in the beneficiary’s condition, such as one of the children working or the marriage of the daughters, results in the unlawful disbursement of sums from the state treasury that must be recovered, and they are deducted from the value of the monthly assistance, provided that it does not exceed 25% of the total value of the assistance to the beneficiary. Form of monthly installments
10- A divorced woman before consummation does not have the right to obtain social assistance, based on the law’s definition of a divorced woman as every woman who has been divorced and whose legal waiting period has expired, and since the divorced woman in this case does not have an waiting period, she cannot obtain social assistance.
11- A health disability that prevents a person from obtaining work, including infection with hepatitis C and AIDS, is a reason for obtaining social assistance.
12- Individuals who have a health disability and are not of working age do not receive social assistance, because they are not responsible for themselves or their families.
13- The person who resigned from his job is not among the categories eligible for assistance, and the son who resigned from his job cannot be added to family assistance, because the son has fallen out of the definition of family by virtue of obtaining a job, based on the laws of the state, which seeks with all its various agencies to make its children active citizens. Producers
14- The prisoner is not included among the beneficiaries of assistance, as the penal institutions provide all the requirements for the prisoner’s living life.
15- The reward given to students during the stages of their education is not deducted from the value of the assistance, because it is not considered income, in accordance with the text of Article 6 of the law.
16- It is not possible to provide assistance to a person who does not have a family and resides permanently in a hospital. Social assistance is granted to those in need, while clinical cases who reside in hospitals do not need assistance, as they live with the medical equipment that those hospitals provide for them.
17- The legal alimony provided by the person obligated to provide alimony is considered income that must be deducted from the value of the assistance, with the exception of the assistance provided by the person who is not obligated to provide alimony, such as the alimony of a father who is obligated to provide alimony for his son.
18- The disbursement of assistance will be stopped if the beneficiary does not periodically update his data, which he must do once a year.
19- Residence outside the country prevents the continuation of social assistance, according to Article 2 of the law, which stipulates that he must reside on the territory of the country and not outside it.
20- Social assistance stops in the event of an income exceeding its assumed value coupled with the number of family members, or in the event of the beneficiary’s marriage, the beneficiary’s death, the beneficiary’s work, or the head of the family’s release from prison, if it is a prisoner’s family, and his return to his job.