The Federal Government is dispensing N446.5 million to 22,380 helpless family units under the plan to pad the impacts of coronavirus pandemic effect in the state.
The Head of the Cash Transfer Unit in the state, Hajiya Hauwa Abdulrazaq, made the revelation in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ikara Local Government Area of the state.
Abdulrazaq said that the payment which occurred between April 7 and 15 had been finished up in eight out of the nine profiting Local Government Areas of the state.
She clarified that the program started in the state in 2017 with around 10,000 recipients, however extended to 22,380 recipients in the present year. Abdulrazaq recognized the profiting gatherings as Chikun, Birnin Gwari, Ikara, Kachia, Kauru, Kubau, Kajuru, Lere and Sanga.
As indicated by her, 22,040 of the 22,380 recipients got N20,000 each being installment for the long stretches of January, February, March and April at N5000 every month.
She included that 340 new recipients, whose installments were to start from March got N10,000 each being installment for the long stretches of March and April.
"Up until this point, N19.7 million has been dispensed to 978 poor family units in Sanga; N12.2 million to 604 recipients in Kachia and N69.1 million to 3,487 families in Lere LGA.
"We have likewise dispensed N34.1 million to 1, 720 family units in Kauru, more than N62.3 million to 3,108 recipients in Kajuru, N41.2 million to 2,053 in Kubau and N34.1 million to 1,719 recipients in Chikun.
"We have recently finished up the dispensing of N61 million to 3,075 recipients in Ikara neighborhood government zone," she said.
The authority said that the activity would be finished up on April 21, with the dispensing of N112.8 million to 5,636 helpless family units in Birnin Gwari gathering.
She said that increasingly powerless family unit would be caught in the Social Register to build the quantity of recipients in the state. "Truth be told, in excess of 14,000 new recipients have were taken on March, their names had been sent to the national office for endorsement.
"I am certain that Kaduna state would likewise profit by the one million helpless family units that would be included the Social Register as coordinated by President Muhammadu Buhari," she said.
NAN reports that the activity in Chikun and Ikara zones was without hitch as the greater part of the recipients communicated gratefulness to the Federal Government for the help.
– NAN
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