Social Insurance Benefits (Qatar’s Law no. 38 of 1995)

1995

1. 1,695 households in 2009; 5. 1,037 in 2009; 6. 2,503 in 2009; 9. 817 in 2009

Source of funding: Government of Qatar

Nationwide

1. Women who have been divorced, have not remarried and have insufficient income; 2. Families in need without sufficient income; 3. Families without a breadwinner, without sufficient income; 4. Abandoned wives without sufficient income; 5. Widows without sufficient income; 6. Individuals with a disability; 7. Citizens aged 18–60 years who are prevented from taking up employment due to a chronic illness; 8. Orphans and children of unknown parenthood under the age of 18 and without sufficient income; 9. Elderly citizens above the age of 60 and without sufficient income

1. Women must produce proof of being divorced; 2. Households must produce proof of not having sufficient income; 3. Head of household must be declared missing; 4. Women must be declared by a court of law to have been abandoned by their husbands; 5. Women must produce proof of widowhood; 6. Individuals must produce proof of suffering from a disability; 7. Individuals must produce proof of suffering from a chronic illness; 8. Individuals must produce proof of being orphaned; 9. Individuals must produce proof of being over 60 years of age

Social assessment review at least once a year

Cash

1. QAR6,000; 2. QAR6,000; additional benefits: QAR2,000 per wife, QAR1,000 per child; 3. QAR6,000; additional benefits: QAR1,000 per child; 4. QAR6,000 5. QAR6,000; 6. QAR6,000; additional benefits: QAR2,000 per wife, QAR1,000 per child; special allowance of QAR1,500 to employ domestic workers if they do not receive state care; 7. QAR4,000; special allowance of QAR1,500 to employ domestic workers if they do not receive state care 8. QAR3,000 each for orphans under the age of 17; QAR6,000 each for orphans above the age of 17; 9. QAR6,000 per husband, QAR2,000 per wife, QAR1,000 per child

Monthly

Main beneficiary or representative