Removal Of Means Testing Requirement For Persons With Disabilities Applying For Public Assistance
Implementation Of One-Time Application Process For Persons With Disabilities Applying For Public Assistance

Date

PERSONS living with disabilities (PWDs) will have automatic access to public assistance until they attain the age of 65 years. All persons living with permanent disabilities will be able to access public assistance without any need to qualify for a needs test. It is automatic access to public assistance. That public assistance will be provided to them for the rest of their life, they do not need to be subjected to any other medical or any other test going forward.

Public assistance was initially classified as temporary financial assistance designed to assist the infirm, aged, persons with disabilities, orphans, persons affected by HIV and all other persons who cannot adequately maintain their households.

The programme is subjected to periodic reviews to ensure eligibility, and applicants were interviewed by the officers after which the duly constituted Local Board of Guardians of the district will deliberate and decide on who will receive the grant and how much will be given.

General Objectives

Improving the lives of persons with disabilities

Beneficiaries
Persons with Disabilities below the age of 65 years
Country
Type
Specific to the action or instrument
Responsible institution
Ministry Of Human Services and Social Security
Topics / Chapters
 A. Integration of population dynamics
Main Priority Measure

A.1 - Eradicate poverty

Reinforce the public policies and actions needed to eradicate poverty and break the cycles of exclusion and inequality as a condition for achieving development in the region.

A.4 - Population and development

Ensure full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development planning, sectoral policies and public policies and programmes in general ―in particular in development and land-use planning― at national and subnational levels, drawing on sociodemographic knowledge and information and harnessing technological advances.

A.5 - Sustainable development for human well-being

Pursue sustainable development as a means of securing now and in the future human well-being for all peoples on an equitable basis, and ensuring that the linkages between population, resources, the environment and development are fully recognized, appropriately administered and maintained in a harmonious and dynamic balance with a thriving biodiversity and healthy ecosystems