LEAP arrears to be paid from Monday
More than 77,000 households in 103 districts in the country are to benefit from GH¢4,918,404 as their social intervention payment for September and October, 2014.
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The disbursement of the grants, under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP), will begin from November 17 to 21, 2014.
The LEAP is a pro-poor social intervention programme which disburses funds to the poorest households in Ghana.
Through the programme, the government assists poorest families with their basic needs, including health.
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Under the programme, a single beneficiary of a household receives GH¢48; two beneficiaries of a single household are entitled to GHc60; three beneficiaries of a single household get GH¢72, while a family of more than four beneficiaries is eligible for GH¢90 in two months.
A Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mr John A. Ackon, announced this at a media briefing in Accra yesterday.
The categories of beneficiaries include extremely poor beneficiaries, orphans, vulnerable children, a severely disabled person without a productive capacity and the elderly without any source of support.
Pregnant women to benefit
According to the deputy minister, pregnant women and infants in extremely poor households were to benefit from the LEAP to improve on their living conditions.
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The initiative, dubbed: “LEAP 1000”, he said, was aimed at preventing stunting, underweight and malnutrition among children during the first 1,000 days of their lives.
He said 23,000 additional households would be covered in the next payment and added that arrears of the LEAP grant payments had been paid to the beneficiary households.
Mr Ackon explained that as the country strove to improve on the economic status of the poor, it was important to ensure equitable and sustainable development towards a positive social change by putting in such interventions.