Management of the National Social Investment Programme has said all beneficiaries of it’s Household Upliftment Programme (HUP) will henceforth receive their stipends strictly by digitalized channel.
The National Coordinator of the Household Upliftment Programme (HUP), Halima Shehu disclosed this during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja yesterday.
Halima said it has become necessary to digitize the payments of Household Upliftment Programme (HUP) to avert or reduce the level of theft or corruption witnessed over the past payments.
She noted that, during previous payments, Desk Coordinators and Cash Transfer Facilitators (CTFs) were not paying fully what was approved for beneficiaries and released for them. Some of the CTFs were paying N8,500 instead of the N10,000 released to be paid to beneficiaries. So in other to curtail this menace, we have to digitize their payments.
Payment System Fully Digitized, Halima Shehu, National Programme Coordinator @HUPcct says.
The beneficiaries have their individuals accounts for any form of financial transactions. https://t.co/8sB8nll3jH via @YouTube
— Household Uplifting Programme (HUP) (@HUPcct) August 16, 2022
In another development, NG CARES begins collection of bank account details of beneficiaries with hope to commence disbursement soon.
The National Cash Transfer Programme also known as Household Uplifting Programme (HUP) is one of the social safety nets programmes anchored by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The programme commenced in September, 2016. It was conceived as part of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s (FGN) larger growth and social inclusion strategies aimed at addressing key social concerns in the country.
It is a component of National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP) which is supported by the World Bank, to provide financial support to targeted poor and vulnerable Nigerian households.
The programme is focused on responding to deficiencies in capacity and lack of investment in human capital, especially amongst our poorest citizens. Beneficiaries of the programme are mined from the National Social Register (NSR), comprising State Social Registers (SR) of poor and vulnerable households.
