The Ministry of Social Affairs will allocate 70 million shekels to social staff in municipalities for emergency bills – Muricas News

The Ministry of Social Welfare and the Friendship Fund are launching a undertaking underneath which social staff in municipalities will obtain an emergency finances of their alternative.

The ministry will make investments 35 million shekels within the undertaking, and the Friendship Fund will add the identical quantity. The undertaking relies on the findings from pilot applications through the coronavirus pandemic, which confirmed that such a mechanism works nicely when it comes to constructing belief between social providers and beneficiaries.

The social employee will be capable of use the funds from such a money desk to restore a damaged fridge, repay housing debt, emergency dental care, purchase meals, and so on. The quantity of emergency help to at least one household shouldn't exceed 10,000 shekels.