Great interest in supporting low-income people
The directive of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God protect him, to restructure the “social support program for low-income people” into an integrated program with an amount of 28 billion dirhams, and to raise the annual social support allocation from 2.7 billion to 5 billion dirhams, confirming the keenness of our leadership It is wise to provide decent livelihoods for citizens with low incomes, to enhance family stability, which is in line with the societal welfare system that the United Arab Emirates is keen to lay its foundations.
In details, the restructuring plan included three main programmes, the first of which relates to new allocations for the benefit of the low-income category in the areas of housing, university education and the unemployed looking for work. The second program includes bonuses that go to the head of the family according to his years of experience, an increase in allowance for the wife and an increase in an allowance for children. As for the third program, it included allowances for inflation, which was caused by the increase in the prices of fuel, electricity, water and food.
Since its establishment, the UAE has long established a set of rules that enhance the economic security of its citizens through social welfare programs that provide financial assistance to eligible citizens with limited income. Based on Federal Law No. (2) of 2001, monthly aid is provided to widows and divorced women. People of determination, the elderly, orphans, the sickly disabled, the families of the imprisoned, the financially incapable, abandoned women, and female citizens married to foreign husbands who are unable to earn their living for reasons beyond their control.
Federally, the Ministry of Community Development supervises the implementation of the social welfare system, and distributes allocations to women’s organizations to ensure that women in remote areas receive some form of economic security and support. As for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the Department of Community Development has launched the “Abu Dhabi Social Support Program”, to provide financial support to people with low incomes, as part of the “Abu Dhabi Accelerators Tomorrow 21” program, aimed at promoting a decent life for citizen families in the emirate.
The rational leadership of the state has been concerned with providing all the necessities of a decent life for all the people of the state, based on a basic principle that caring for the human being is the first step towards strengthening the desired leadership and progress, and it is the way for the citizen to live in safety and stability at various levels, especially social and economic ones.
The UAE, through its development policies, has provided its children with decent housing and a decent standard of living, in competition with the major developed countries, and has reduced the two phenomena of poverty and unemployment that are witnessing a significant growth at the Arab and global levels alike.
* On the “News of the Hour” bulletin issued by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
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