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Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke.
June 13 is the closing date for persons to submit applications under the extended SET Cash grant and the Best Cash grant relief programmes.
The Government has set aside $3 billion to facilitate the payments.
The SET Cash grant provides unemployment support grants for those persons who earned at, or below the income tax threshold and have been unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic from all sectors while the BEST Cash grant supports tourism employment.
Finance and Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke said the period for new applications will close on June 13 and advertisements to this effect have been in the public domain for the past few weeks.
Dr Nigel Clarke
The Government has announced that it is making $329 million available to purchase digital devices for needy students under the recently launched $60 billion SERVE Jamaica Programme.
Finance and Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke made the announcement Wednesday in a statement in the House of Representatives.
Under the initiative which has been dubbed the ‘SERVE Jamaica Digital Programme, eligible students will be identified by Members of Parliament and councillors, “as students in need who have not benefited from other Government laptop/digital device programmes,” Clarke said.
His announcement comes nearly one year since the parliamentary Opposition first called on the government to waive the duties and taxes on digital devices to enable poorer students to continue their education online.
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