Morocco to Launch Direct Cash Aid Program for 3 Million Low-Income Families

This measure is one of the phases of the process of generalization of social protection initiated by the country, explained the Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch, who declared to the Parliament that the project will benefit, in a first phase, from the end of 2023, some 7 million children from vulnerable and poor families and 3 million families without school-age children.

"We have always been in favor of direct aid, as long as it is not driven by political or electoral motives." The scope of the social register, he added, "goes far beyond the framework of a government program for a single term and goes beyond a vision attributed to a ministerial department, a partisan actor or a political actor."

While waiting for the implementation of all the operational mechanisms of the major social protection project, the government has announced the start of the payment of family allowances on the basis of the eligibility criteria of the RNP/RSU scheme. This project will be carried out in parallel with a gradual decompensation and substitution of existing social programs.

In this sense, a steering committee chaired by the Head of Government has been set up. This committee, it is explained, "will meet monthly to assess the progress of the project, rule on arbitration points and make strategic decisions." In addition, 4,500 agents will be mobilized in the citizen service centers and 400 agents in the provinces.