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Social Solidarity Pension
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Social Solidarity Pension
Egypt
Middle East and North Africa
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date 1980 1
Programme objectives To prevent poverty among households with no able-bodied males. 1
Programme type
Unconditional cash transfer
Programme components
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Categorical targeting and means-testing (but the government is moving
to other methods such as geographic targeting and proxy means-testing).
Target areas
Nationwide
Target groups Households with no able-bodied males 1
Eligibility criteria
Beneficiaries must not be receiving another type of pension
and must belong to a household with no able-bodied male provider. 1
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Cash
Amount of benefits
1-person household: EGP215
2-person household: EGP240
3-person household: EGP275
4-person household: EGP300 1
Payment/delivery frequency
Monthly
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients Heads of households 1
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 4.3 per cent of all families (between 2008 and 2009);
currently 1.5 million families are covered (2015). 2,3
Programme expenditure Cash transfers account for 0.2 per cent of GDP (2013);
currently EGP6.3 billion is allocated to this programme per year (2015). 2,3,4
Institutions and agencies involved Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS)
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 168: Social Solidarity Pension
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