The Ministry of Social Affairs started payment of pensions and assistance to the persons benefiting from the social insurance for the month of Rabi Al-Awwal (from the start of the third lunar month). This involved a sum amounting to SR 931,793,663 covering 692,734 cases. This amount is being paid to the beneficiaries through the Automatic Telling Machines (ATM). Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, the Minister of Social Affairs, has reiterated the keenness of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz on extending the best possible services to the beneficiaries of the social insurance. Dr Al-Othaimeen said 13, 295 new cases were added to the system of social insurance including orphans and widows as well as the disabled persons.
