Around one million families, or the equivalent of 3.5 million Moroccans, will benefit from the first tranche of direct social assistance, as of December 28, Head of government, Aziz Akhannouch, said on Monday in Rabat. «As of December 28, around one million families meeting the eligibility threshold for the Unified Social Register, equivalent to 3.5 million Moroccans, will benefit from the first tranche of this financial support, the value of which will not be less than 500 dirhams per family, whatever its composition, after these families have submitted their applications before December 10 and their files have been processed», explained Akhannouch in an address at the opening of the Government Council meeting. The rest of the families who submitted their applications after the aforementioned date will receive their December and January payments at the end of next month, the Head of Government noted, adding that the door to submitting applications remains open to families meeting the eligibility threshold, in order to benefit from direct social support in the future. Akhannouch pointed out that the government had received more than 1.9 million applications through the www.asd.ma electronic portal since its launch at the beginning of December, noting that this number continues to rise daily.
