Gender Ministry resumes payment of LEAP beneficiaries
The Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty Program Secretariat under the Gender, Children and Social Protection Ministry has announced its resumption of cash payments to beneficiaries of the program.
The payment, which commenced on April 18, 2022, after an initial delay, is scheduled to go out to 344, 786, beneficiaries which constitute the 75th and 76th cycles.
Beneficiaries under the 76th cycle will be receiving double their every two months cash amount due to the delay in the 75th cycle.
They are therefore expected to as usual visit their various community payment centres with their E-Zwich to cash out their monies.
“The LEAP Management Secretariat wishes to inform stakeholders that the government has released funds for the nationwide payment of cash grants for the 75th and 76th cycle to 344, 786 households of the LEAP programme. As has been the practice, beneficiaries will be paid their grants through E-zwich at designated pay-points in their respective communities and the premises of the participating financial institutions.”
Managers of the programme have assessed these current beneficiaries and have confirmed that they are very poor and the degree of vulnerability grants them eligibility to join the LEAP programme.
“The current beneficiaries have been means-tested to be extremely poor with the following category of vulnerability that makes the households eligible for the LEAP programme: (1) elderly, 65 and beyond without support, (2) orphans and vulnerable children, (3) persons with a severe disability who cannot walk, and (4) pregnant mothers with children under one-year-old.”
Households that benefit from the programme receive different amounts of money, depending on the number of eligible household members.
An example is, that a household with only one eligible member receives GH¢64; two eligible members from one household receive GH¢76, while three members from the same household are offered GH¢88.
Also, households with four or more eligible members receive GH¢106.
World Bank support, UNICEF, World Food Programme, amongst others have contributed greatly to helping LEAP reach out to the vulnerable.
On Monday, April 4, 2022, the World Bank, released GH¢42 million through the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project 2 (GPSNP 2), to support the government of Ghana (GoG) to pay two cycles of arrears.
