A federal minister has demanded that the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) be handed over to the provinces, arguing that provincial governments could run the country’s largest cash-transfer programme more effectively than the federal government. The demand comes days after the National Assembly was told that more than 2.25 million beneficiaries were removed from BISP’s … Read more
Irregularities of Rs24 billion have been uncovered in the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), with 140,488 government employees and pensioners found to have received payments meant for poor families. The figures come from documents the Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety presented in the National Assembly — and they make uncomfortable reading: the problem … Read more
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has blocked 229,157 government employees or their spouses from receiving financial assistance, after audits identified them as ineligible beneficiaries. The government has also recovered Rs712.4 million from ineligible recipients — the details were shared by the Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Syed Imran Ahmad Shah, in a … Read more