About 900 persons forced out of their homes by the November floods in Jeddah have, from this week, started receiving accommodation and living allowances. A Civil Defense spokesman said that the Ministry of Finance had completed the data-approval process and begun dispensing the funds, but noted that the list had been longer. “It had been noticed that some persons registered as affected by floods were not at the accommodation designated after they had been added to the Civil Defense list, so the numbers dropped as did the expenditure,” said spokesman Mohammed Al
