Topic: Financial Assistance Act
PPM’s Bryan files motion to make more people eligible for financial assistance
PPM's Bryan bids to boost financial assistance payouts with increases to thresholds to qualify over the three categories
Rent, food and internet benefits increased amid cost-of-living crisis
Large increases to benefits payments for rent, utilities and food as well as new stipends for phone, internet and transport have been pushed through to help Cayman’s most vulnerable cope with the rising cost of living.
Reforms aim to ‘transform’ financial assistance in Cayman
Cabinet has approved the publication of regulations that will pave the way for reforming Cayman's financial assistance programmes and their management.
MPs vote to overhaul ‘hopelessly out of date’ social welfare system
Lawmakers have approved a new Financial Assistance Act to replace the six-decade-old Poor Persons Relief Act, which Social Development Minister André Ebanks has described as inadequate and "hopelessly out of date".
