The Ministries of Economy and Finance, Social Affairs and Labor (MAST) and the Economic and Social Assistance Fund (FAES) continue to work to enable people with modest incomes to benefit from financial assistance from the State in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Thus, 15,969 new heads of household each received 3,072 Gourdes (including 72 Gourdes of transfer fees) through the financial platform "MonCash" of the mobile telephone company Digicel.

Let's recall that the identification of beneficiaries is carried out from the database of the Information System of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (SIMAST).

The MonCash service specifies that after September 17, 2020, the date of the 10th disbursement, the total number of beneficiaries which was 293,342 rose to 309,311 (December 10), to which are added the 15,969 new beneficiaries bringing the new total to 325,280, since the launch of operations to fight the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30670-haiti-politic-the-government-has-already-sent-3-000-gourdes-of-subsidies-to-22-888-families.html following the promises made by President Moïse https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30405-haiti-covid-19-moise-promises-food-to-1-million-families-and-cash-to-15-million-others.html

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-31182-haiti-news-zapping.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30670-haiti-politic-the-government-has-already-sent-3-000-gourdes-of-subsidies-to-22-888-families.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30405-haiti-covid-19-moise-promises-food-to-1-million-families-and-cash-to-15-million-others.html

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