58 articles tagged "social-welfare"
Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says social welfare recipients eligible for term life and funeral benefits must be fully vaccinated by 1st November 2021. While announcing the National Budget, Sayed-Khaiyu
Social welfare recipients particularly elderly Fijians who cannot go to supermarkets or banks to access food and payments can now give their food voucher cards and bank cards to their children or a third party who can r
Director for Social Welfare Rupeni Fatiaki has stressed that they have made every effort to provide shelter to the homeless people but some of them prefer to stay on the streets. This is after concerns were raised
International Labour Organisation Office for Pacific Island Countries Director, Matin Karimli says the COVID-19 pandemic has brought additional poverty and may reverse years of progress in the fight against child labour
Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Mereseini Vuniwaqa says violence against women and children is illegal, immoral, it can never be justified and it needs to be punished and if we do not make this mes
Some recipients under the Social Pension Scheme may receive a reduced payment if their circumstances have changed however the allowance is still $100 per month. Permanent Secretary for Women, Children and Poverty A
The Social Pension Scheme allowance will remain at $100.00 per month and if you have received a lower allowance than usual, then you must contact the Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation for assistance.
More people are now receiving assistance through the government’s Social Welfare programs as Fiji struggles to overcome the effects of COVID-19 and the recent tropical cyclones. As at 31st January 2021, 43,909 pe
The Department of Social Welfare says they are doing their own assessment where a family of 7 including a 5-year-old, 4-year-old, 2 years 7 months, a 3 weeks old baby and a 74-year-old grandmother had to spend three nig
Westpac Fiji has highlighted that for the recipients of Social Welfare to receive their payments straight away, they would now need to open a BSP account. This follows concerns raised by people having Westpac accou
The Department of Social Welfare is urging all welfare recipients to check their bank accounts on the 6th of every month regarding their monthly welfare payments, as times may vary as to when funds will be available in
Some of the recipients of the social welfare allowances that still bank with Westpac have confirmed that they still have not received their allowance, however, the Director for Social Welfare Rupeni Fatiaki says the gov
Minister for Women, Mereseini Vuniwaqa the statistic of 72 % of Fijian women affected by some form of violence in their lifetime, makes our country rank amongst the highest in terms of violence against women and girls.
Recipients of the Poverty Benefit Scheme, Care and Protection Allowance and Social Pension Scheme that had recertified with the Ministry of Poverty Alleviation received their payments for the month of August. This
Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Mereseini Vuniwaqa says they reduced the Social Welfare Bus Assistance to $10 a month simply because COVID-19 has affected the country in such a way that they had ne
8,102 cases from the total 86,283 were terminated in the 2019-2020 financial year according to the Review Report on the Social Allowance Scheme. There were a total of 20,099 new Social Welfare Scheme applications
The Social Welfare Department is currently looking at making housing arrangements for a 28-year-old single mother and her 1 year 11 months old disabled son who have been living in a tent in Galoa after Tropical Cyclone
The Director of Social Welfare says welfare payments of about 10,000 people who were previously receiving the allowances, has been suspended as they have not filled in their re-certification forms to show that they are
