{"id":129051,"date":"2022-10-07T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129051"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T21:51:27","slug":"dont-leave-anyone-behind-welfare-benefit-prog-for-vulnerable-individuals-families-to-be-expedited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/07\/dont-leave-anyone-behind-welfare-benefit-prog-for-vulnerable-individuals-families-to-be-expedited\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don’t Leave Anyone Behind’: Welfare benefit prog for vulnerable individuals & families to be expedited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite the programme to provide welfare&nbsp;benefits to 3.1 million low-income families in Sri Lanka.<br \/> <br \/>This program has been planned to cover all the districts of the country under the theme &lsquo;Don’t&nbsp;Leave Anyone Behind’. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe revealed this while&nbsp;attending a media briefing held this afternoon (06) at the Government Information Department&nbsp;Auditorium.<br \/> <br \/>Under this programme the benefits will be available for the families or individuals receiving&nbsp;benefits under Samurdhi, Elderly Person, Disabled Person and Kidney Disease Assistance&nbsp;Program. <br \/><br \/>Also, people who are on the waiting list expecting subsidies as well as people who are&nbsp;affected by the current economic crisis and who are expecting government welfare benefits will&nbsp;also receive this benefit, the Minister revealed.<br \/><br \/>Minister also said that calling for applications have already started and the closing date has been&nbsp;extended to October 15.<br \/><br \/>The relevant application form can be downloaded via the <a href=”http:\/\/www.wbb.gov.lk<\/a>“>www.wbb.gov.lk<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>By calling for new applications, the government hope to include all eligible beneficiaries and to&nbsp;provide benefits to all those who deserve benefits through the Social Welfare Benefit Board, the&nbsp;Minister further said.<br \/> <br \/>Denying on the rumour that been circulating among the public regarding the cut-down of the&nbsp;allowances according to the agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he said the government needs organise the data in a correct system. <br \/><br \/>It needs to include the group who are&nbsp;currently receiving welfare benefits as well as the group who are not receiving welfare benefits&nbsp;but are expecting. It is our expectation to gather all the information and give the allowance to the&nbsp;necessary, appropriate and correct individual.<br \/><br \/>We are united in the national responsibility that no one should be left behind. Currently there is a&nbsp;group receiving public assistance, welfare allowances and disability allowances. <br \/><br \/>It is mandatory&nbsp;for them to be registered at the Divisional Secretariat. At present, only a small group of&nbsp;beneficiaries have been registered. Therefore, we have extended the registration. Extending this&nbsp;date further means that the date of receiving the benefits will also be delayed. This should be&nbsp;done quickly.<br \/><br \/>For that, we need a data system. By receiving these applications, the data system is prepared. It is&nbsp;mandatory for the people who are currently receiving benefits to register for this. We have&nbsp;prepared a data system to do this transparently. The young people of the village have a great&nbsp;responsibility in this regard.<br \/><br \/>It is also possible to find out about the needy people of the rural level and educate them about&nbsp;them. Elderly people, people with disabilities, kidney patients, and destitute families are in some&nbsp;rural areas. All those people are included in this data system and taken care of by the welfare&nbsp;benefit board.<br \/><br \/>After the application is submitted, the officers of the Divisional Secretariat will go and&nbsp;investigate the families and take further action. There is a scoring system. Accordingly, they are&nbsp;included in the data system. <br \/><br \/>In this process, if they are not selected, they can file an appeal, and&nbsp;if an ineligible person has entered the system, they can file an objection. This process is done to&nbsp;provide benefits in a transparent manner and not to cut down the allowances.<br \/><br \/>Chairman of the Welfare Benefit Board B. Wijayaratne, Director of the General Secretariat for&nbsp;the Disabled, Anuradha Herath, Director of the Elderly Secretariat, KG Lanarole and other&nbsp;officials were present at this occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite the programme to provide welfare&nbsp;benefits to 3.1 million low-income families in Sri Lanka.<br \/> <br \/>This program has been planned to cover all the districts of the country under the theme &lsquo;Don’t&nbsp;Leave Anyone Behind’. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe revealed this while&nbsp;attending a media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}