Subsidy system filtering process starts, citizens invited to report Kramers
The Ismail government is asking honorable citizens to get in touch with their inner snitches and rat-out fraudsters and others who have no right to a subsidy card. The initiative to purge welfare rolls of freeloaders (henceforth referred to in Enterprise as Kramers) in exchange for the waiving of fines kicks off tomorrow and runs through February, Supply Minister Mohamed Ali Elsheikh said, according to Al Shorouk. Among those who need to be booted from the list, the ministry says: The dead, anyone traveling outside the country for more than six months, people with more than one ration card, and anyone registered “by mistake.” The move comes as the Ismail government prepares to apply new eligibility requirements for welfare benefits and turns the cleanup of the smart card system over to the Armed Forces. The government aims to have a clean list of qualified beneficiaries by the end of the current fiscal year, Planning Minister Ashraf El-Araby said yesterday.