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Local state apparatus to improve cash aid distribution data
The National Team for Alleviating Poverty (TNP2K) said on Thursday that the government had given authority to local state apparatus to update the temporary direct cash assistance (BLSM) data, which had been blamed for the chaotic cash aid distribution
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he NationalTeam for Alleviating Poverty (TNP2K) said on Thursday that the government hadgiven authority to local state apparatus to update the temporarydirect cash assistance (BLSM) data, which hadbeen blamed for the chaotic cash aid distribution.
The data originated from the National Statistics Agency (BPS) and was based on the 2011 Social Safety Net Program Data Collection (PPLS), which many considered to not be accurate ' evidenced by the fact that many wealthy families received the cash aid.
'The new policy will allow the local state apparatus to decide whenever people are eligible for the cash aid,' TNP2K secretary Bambang Widianto said in Jakarta on Thursday.
TNP2K communication division coordinator Ruddy Gobel said field officers came across cases where the cards had been returned to the local government offices because the card holders had apparently passed away.
'Therefore, we need to keep looking for those who are eligible for the cash aid,' he said.
The government allocated Rp 9.3 trillion (US$920.7 million) in the 2013 revised state budget (APBN-P) for the BLSM as part of the compensation to mitigate the impact of the subsidized-fuel price hikeon 15.5 million low-income over four months.(hrl)
