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Media In / Riyadh 10 February 2019
Saudi Citizen’s Account has deposited 2.4 billion riyals in the accounts of the beneficiaries of the 15 th installment payments for February of this year and 18.1 million riyals for previous payments to the number of eligible persons. 84% The beneficiaries in this installment more than 12.4 million beneficiaries, while the total payments since the start of the program until the current installment more than 34.8 billion riyals, while the total payments for the retroactive 15 payments more than 291 million riyals.
Sultan Al Qahtani, the official spokesman for the citizen account program, said that 44% of the total beneficiaries received the full benefit with an average support of SR 1,000 per family, indicating that the number of heads of households benefiting from the program exceeded 2.2 million beneficiaries, while the number of dependents was more than 8.7 million beneficiaries, Stressing the importance of updating the information when there is any change in income and data, within fifteen days to avoid the lack of maturity in the next installment.
He pointed out that the program has come to serve the citizens and to ensure that they are not affected by economic reforms, with the exception of supporting specific categories, including “holders of the mobility card, foreign married to a Saudi, widow and divorced Saudi woman with her Saudi children and a foreigner married to a Saudi woman.” Is able to take care of the follower and obliges him to spend 18 years or older to apply to the program of calculating the citizen as a family, while the child knows that each person is under the care of the host and resides with him in one dwelling, including the wife and unmarried children and unmarried daughters, Which is supported by a legal document proving dependency.
