The Federal Government’s National Cash Transfer Programme will from June 2022 be paying N20 billion to two million Nigerians.
According to a March 2022 Report from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development the two million people will get N5,000.
The document on the strategic roadmap and activities of the ministry, showed that the number of people receiving cash transfers from the government had been increasing.
The report stated that in 2018, a total of 19 states were covered under the National Cash Transfer Programme, as this increased to 24 states in 2019 and moved up to 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in 2022, covering 1.6 million people.
Despite the increase, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, said in the report that the number would increase further in June.
Under the cash transfer scheme, the Federal Government supports poor and vulnerable households with cash on a monthly basis.
“By June 2022 we would be paying two million people N5,000 basic cash transfer and an additional N5,000 on conditional cash transfers, which is conditioned on good health-seeking/behaviour, school retention, and good water and hygiene conditions in their environment/homes,” Farouq stated.
She said the ministry designed and piloted a shock-responsive social register, called the Rapid Response Register to capture urban poor informal workers, who were daily wage earners, working across towns and cities, and impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown.
