The Cabinet media center has dismissed as groundless reports on cutting the value of funds allocated to the Takaful and Karama program as a result of the world economic crisis.

A statement issued by the center Sunday said it contacted the Ministry of Social Solidarity which dismissed the news and affirmed that no money was cut down in the program.

It added the beneficiaries of the program will continue to receive their dues normally without any cuts.

Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015. Takaful (“Solidarity”) supports poor families with children under 18, while Karama (“Dignity”) supports the elderly poor and people living with disabilities.

The cash transfer program has enrolled 5.02 million families across all of Egypt’s governorates benefitting 22 million people.

The Takaful and Karama program was evaluated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) using both quantitative statistical methods (simple questions asked to many households during a survey) and qualitative methods (more in-depth questions asked to fewer households in longer interviews).

Source: State Information Service Egypt