BISP

Briefing highlights progress including BISP's aid distribution to eligible beneficiaries and financial challenges

PTA chief Hafeez Ur Rehman assures full cooperation to ensure the security of BISP beneficiaries.

Acting on complaints of these illegal deductions, Khuski police have registered a case against 16 device holders

Now there is a proposal to increase the number of beneficiaries in the range 9.6 million to 9.7 million people

BISP chairperson Rubina Khalid directs staff to enhance services

Poverty and inequality are the essential concomitants of a laissez faire economy

Laws exist but not implemented; illiteracy main hindrance in awareness

Finance minister says govt eyes fresh IMF deal by June

Government of Pakistan has increased the quarterly instalment to Rs10,500 from Rs8,750

Some franchise holders, weary of ongoing exploitation, admitted to providing devices to racketeers

CM says information from BISP, NADRA clubbed and verified for Ramazan package

Govt to give Rs7.5 billion under Ramazan Relief Package for 39.6m low-income families

Local officials struggle to trace deserving families

Between 2011 and 2019, the percentage of BISP beneficiaries below the poverty line fell from 90% to 72%

Survey for K-P in 2022-23 reveals that 922,314 children are engaged in work constituting 11.1% of population

Despite subsidies and social programmes, inflation has driven 5% rise in poverty

Govt increases financial support for poor in line with commitment to IMF

Aims to bolster social protection system, support underprivileged

9.3 million poor families are benefitting from program, says chief

Main reason for the imbalance in the society was an unfair distribution of wealth says BISP Chairman

The welfare programme has deliberately turned a blind eye to never-married women living below the poverty line

PPP leader says she has served people with integrity and is proud of her political journey

Police say they caught him in the act of making illegal deductions from beneficiaries of the welfare programme

Minister says compensation cheques provided to 115 heirs

Shehbaz visits more wheat flour centres in Sargodha

Beneficiaries of Islamabad, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan will get their payment amount from Habib bank ATMs

Members were of the view that Balochistan needed special attention given the geographical aspect of the province

Officials apprise committee pilot project being launched in three districts

About 8.9 million women availing financial assistance through the program

SAPM said that BISP is providing relief to 8.9 million people across the country

Minister says registered members will receive cash under BISP

Senate panel informed Rs70b given to flood-hit families by BISP without new survey

BISP grilled over funds 'not reaching' flood victims

Closure of lone ATM was also a cause of anxiety among the flood victims

Beneficiaries were excluded from the BISP lists on the basis of the data filters, says federal minister

Says she is no more the special assistant but the chairperson

Says it fired 39 of its officers and officials for misuse of cash transfer facility

In popular imagination, both are viewed through the singular lens of cash handouts to the poor

Accountability court fixes new date for indicting Farzana Raja

Accountability court initiates proceedings to declare former BISP chairperson absconder

Says action based on recent data cleaning exercise under Ehsaas Government Framework

Morality, grace and the BISP Act demands that the programme should be run under its original name

FIA will investigate 2,700 govt employees illegally drawing money from fund

Some 155,767 were removed from BISP database as their spouse(s) paid Rs1,000 or more in their telephone bills

“Will it not be a violation of the basic essence of BISP if its name is changed?” asks LHC CJ Muhammad Qasim Khan

$100m will be used for PPE procurement, $200m to assist poor

Rs75b released to BISP out of Rs200b earmarked in PM’s relief package

Peshawar High Court issues show-cause notices

12 million families to be awarded Rs12,000 each

Considering the long-ingrained habit of ‘moral lepers’, such depravity does not come as a surprise