Want to know How to Apply for Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program? Read the following instructions.
- Type your CNIC number and send it to 8171.
- The Ehsaas team shall verify your credentials from their database.
- After verifying the credentials from database, they will tell you whether you’re eligible for the cash grant or not.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched several initiatives to deal with coronavirus pandemic. In order to provide relief to marginalized segments of the society, Mr. Khan has recently launched Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme. The Ehsaas Emergency Cash is the largest ever social protection initiative in the history of Pakistan. It aims to provide financial assistance to 12 million families. Under this programme, Rs. 12,000 will be given to 12 million deserving families. The total cost set for this programme is Rs. 144 billion. However, if the demand for Ehsaas Emergency Cash is higher, additional resources will be earmarked
Applying for Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program
All daily wage earners and labourers can apply for the Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme by enrolling themselves via SMS. The Ehsaas SMS campaign will help the government identify the rightful beneficiaries. To check your eligibility for this programme, you have to do the following.
- Type your CNIC number in the SMS.
- Send it to 8171
- Ehsaas shall verify your credentials from their database and will respond to you accordingly.
- You will receive an SMS indicating your eligibility or Ineligibility.
If your CNIC is in the National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) database then you will receive a message saying that you’re eligible for this programme. The eligible applicants shall be notified regarding the subsequent process via SMS.
If you’re not in the Ehsaas database, you will be asked to contact your respective district administration. According to a briefing from Special Assistant to PM on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar, “People shall be able to collect cash from Points of Sale (POS) of biometrically enabled branchless banking operations and biometrically enabled ATMs”. After the biometric verification of each beneficiary through NADRA, cash transfers will be made to them.
Ehsaas Emergency Cash Ineligibility
- If your CNIC is valid, you will move to the next step. If not then you will receive a message indicating that your CNIC is not valid and you are not eligible for the programme.
- If your application is blocked due to blocked sanity profiling then you’re not eligible for this programme as well.
- If you or your spouse is a government employee then you’re not eligible for the programme.
- The applicant is not eligible if he or she is registered with other Federal Government relief/ funding schemes.
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