{"id":188194,"date":"2025-01-09T01:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-releases-sh3-5bn-social-protection-payout-for-1-8mn-elderly-persons\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T01:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:35:25","slug":"kenya-govt-releases-sh3-5bn-social-protection-payout-for-1-8mn-elderly-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-releases-sh3-5bn-social-protection-payout-for-1-8mn-elderly-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt Releases Sh3.5bn Social Protection Payout for 1.8mn Elderly Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has announced the disbursement of Sh3,517,470,000 for the December 2024 Inua Jamii Cash Transfer payments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The funds aim to benefit 1,758,735 individuals enrolled in the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Payments began on Tuesday, January 7, with each beneficiary set to receive Sh2,000 to cover the December 2024 cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This initiative is part of the government&#8217;s ongoing efforts to support vulnerable populations by providing financial assistance to cushion them from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has announced the disbursement of Sh3,517,470,000 for the December 2024 Inua Jamii Cash Transfer payments. The funds aim to benefit 1,758,735 individuals enrolled in the program. Payments began on Tuesday, January 7, with each beneficiary set to receive Sh2,000 to cover the December 2024 cycle. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[50360,258,256,5624,4357,4688,430,257,29241,10183,7897,5746,50359,3577,254],"class_list":["post-188194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1-8mn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elderly","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-payout","tag-persons","tag-protection","tag-releases","tag-sh3-5bn","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}