Egyptian Manpower Minister Mohamed Safaan said on Monday Egypt took a set of decisions and measures to face the coronavirus and its ramifications at the socio-economic level over the past two years.
Addressing the meeting of the Board of Directors of the League of the Arab Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions, held in Algiers, Safaan noted the Egyptian government allocated EGP 100 billion to mitigate the economic effects of coronavirus, underlining pensions have been increased by 14% and targeted social cash transfer programs have been expanded.
Safaan pointed to the government’s initiative to support the irregular labor in the most affected sectors at a cost of EGP 6 billion in addition to increasing allocations for health insurance, medications, and treatment at the expense of the state to reach EGP 10.7 billion.
According to the minister, the government allocated EGP 130 billion to implement a group of social measures, including raising the pensions, the inclusion of 450,000 new families for the Takaful and Karama program, and increasing the monthly incentives and periodic bonuses for the civil servants.
He also referred to the reformation of the Supreme Council for Social Dialogue in 2018.
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