Depositing compensation amounts for lifting meat subsidies, April 15th

13-04-2020

The Ministry of Labour and Social Development has completed the transfer of quarterly compensation for the removal of meat subsidies into the bank accounts of eligible citizens for the months of July, August, and September 2020. The Ministry stated that these amounts will be deposited into citizens’ bank accounts on 15 October 2020, as part of the initiative to unify the date of disbursement of government support programmes, noting that the total number of families benefiting from the compensation amount in this payment is 167,077 Bahraini families, with a total amount of 7,086,501 Bahraini dinars. These payments are disbursed under the meat‑subsidy allocation mechanism for Bahraini citizens, as established by the Cabinet decision of May 2015 regarding its implementation.