The Federal Government established the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP) in 2016 to tackle poverty and hunger across the country. NSIP...

Cases of as many as 164,360 applicants in Kashmir await social welfare department’s clearance that will make them eligible for financial assistance under various social security schemes. In the past two days, government struck 8449...

The World Bank Group and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) signed today a US$500,000 (£400,000) grant agreement to support Iraq’s efforts to strengthen social protection systems, working closely...

Income from the safety net programs directly kept 44.9 million people out of poverty in 2017. That’s 200,000 more...

The amount of money necessary for the payment of unemployment insurance benefits in Estonia is set to grow by a quarter over the next four years to €65.7 million in 2022.  According to estimates by the Estonian Unemployment...

State pension is a fund of money used to provide for those who have reached retirement age, provided they have paid enough national insurance throughout their life. Is the state pension age in UK changing? Do you know yours?

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With less than a month to the d-day, organizers of the annual Kampala City festival have said the much anticipated fest will not take place.

The unprecedented announcement was made by the KCCA executive...

Le gouvernement congolais, à travers les ministères de l’Enseignement primaire, secondaire et professionnel (EPSP), ainsi que de l’Emploi, travail et prévoyance sociale, en partenariat avec le programme alimentaire mondial (PAM), a...

The federal government is to be congratulated on its just-released Poverty Reduction Strategy. The strategy itself, running to more than 100 pages, endorses the idea of an official poverty line, relieving Statistics Canada from the...

The doorstep delivery of public services aims to extend government services beyond counters at a citizens’ residence through ‘Mobile Sahayaks’.

The Delhi government launched its much talked about Home...

Prices of basic commodities and utilities aren’t the only ones increasing, as the Social Security System (SSS) revealed over the weekend that it is asking Congress to allow the agency to impose an additional P30 to P48 in...

Unemployment levels in Kiambu County are set to decrease thanks to a planned initiative to be rolled out by Government in a project known as the Kenya Labour Management Information Systems (LMIS).

At the...