Social Assistance to the Destitute and Aged This will be designed to cover destitute and the aged who are not covered by the PRA, 2004. A pilot scheme to be launched soon would be undertaken in partnership with willing and formidable Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs). This would be in tandem wit the old age benefit branch of social security as specified in the ratified ILO Convention 102.
Intervention Programmes in the Underdeveloped Areas of Nigeria This is a package programme of social assistance that will be carefully implemented in all regions classified as underdeveloped. The pilot scheme will begin with the Niger Delta region.
Government would fund the entire programme, while NSITF with its existing offices across the region would generate the necessary database and administer the benefits. The cost of administration would be substantially eliminated using the platform of NSITF with its existing infrastructures to deliver the services. The conceived social assistance benefits are:
- Old Age Allowance
- Widows Support Allowance
- Disability Allowance
- Child Support Allowance
- Frictional Unemployment Allowance, and
- Free Medicare under the NSITF Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO).
In addition, NSITF will synergize with the Oil Companies as part of their host communities development projects.
NSITF PLEDGE
The NSITF has 46 years cumulative experience in poverty alleviation schemes and therefore, can provide the platform upon which the government’s poverty alleviation programmes can be anchored.
NSITF is ready and prepared to play its important role as the provider of Social Security to all Nigerian citizens and thereby act as the social Conscience of Government thus fulfilling the lofty social objectives enshrined in Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 otherwise christened as “Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy”.
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