Social welfare: Here s how you can claim exceptional and urgent needs payments for one-off expenses
The Department of Social Protection will look at all sources of income, including capital and property but excluding your home, when deciding each case
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PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pix, centre)said the roles of the Social Welfare Department (JKM) as well as its employees would c.
Sunday, 11 Apr 2021 11:54 PM MYT
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin delivers a speech at the launch of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Handbook at the Perdana Putra Building in Putrajaya February 16, 2021. Bernama pic
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PUTRAJAYA, April 11 Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the roles of the Social Welfare Department (JKM) as well as its employees would continue to be empowered through the implementation of several initiatives to ensure the delivery of efficient and people-friendly welfare assistance services.
Among the initiatives included the restructuring of JKM which cover efforts to enhance the delivery of aid, streamlining of posts as well as improving the distribution of duties apart from granting special allowances to JKM staff who serve at risk areas such as senior citizen and people with disabilities (OKU) institutions, he said.
Vital social welfare payments service removed from huge part of Laois
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Concerns have been raised by local public representatives over the apparent removal of a vital service in the Rathdowney Social Welfare Branch Office, a local councillor has claimed.
Cllr Conor Bergin claims that some local people and charitable organisations tried to contact the Community Welfare Officer in Rathdowney in recent days but were informed that the service was no longer available and redirected to the Portlaoise Social Welfare Branch Office instead.
He added that after travelling to the Portlaoise Social Welfare Office, people were informed that the service was no longer available in the Rathdowney/Borris-In-Ossory area for the last 2/3 weeks, and they would have to avail of a postal service instead. Cllr Bergin says a phone number was supplied for them to ring, but they could not get an answer after several attempts.
Reaching children with critical services despite the pandemic By Joachim Buwembo 27 January 2021
The unprecedented challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 did not derail UNICEF’s interventions planned for the health and educational sectors, thanks to the diligent conduct by the teams that ensured that 2021 found the preparatory groundwork accomplished.
Despite the limited travel restrictions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda in March 2020, UNICEF teams went ahead to collect all the data required for the Health System Strengthening in western Uganda. The year closed with this having been taken care of.
In Hoima District, UNICEF provided technical support to the Risk Communication, Social Mobilization and Community Engagement - RSCM-CE activities and up to 12 RSCM-CE sub-committee sessions were conducted. 56 sub-country facilitators, 40 district leaders and 350 Village Health Teams were oriented and updated on Covid-19 manageme