Ehsaas Emergency Cash distribution update, more announcements

An update regarding the distribution of funds has been disclosed by the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program which shows the total amount disbursed till now and the total amount of beneficiaries that the payments have been made to under the initiative.

According to the update released by the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program a total of 7,479,774 deserving people have been paid out financial aid of Rs. 12,000 and the total amount distributed is Rs. 91.2131 billion. These numbers include everyone between 9 April 2020 to 11 May 2020.

Here is a complete breakdown of the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program payments as provided:

Province	Beneficiaries Paid	Amount in billions
AJK	126,221	1.575861
Balochistan	348,967	4.270496
Gilgit Baltistan	50,519	0.645911
Islamabad	28,977	0.3521815
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	1,372,916	16.980445
Punjab	3,153,760	38,400222
Sindh	2,398,414	28,9879815
TOTAL	7,479,774	91.2131

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Dr Sania Nishtar also gave a breakdown of the distribution of the Ehsas Emergency Cash in a series of tweets.

According to the SAPM, so far 163,419 163,419 category-3 beneficiaries identified through district administrations have been paid out Rs.1.961 billion.

Since May 8 @Ehsaas_Pk has commenced disbursements to category-3 of #EhsaasEmergencyCash beneficiaries. Till today, 163,419 category-3 beneficiaries identified through district administrations have been paid out Rs.1.961 bln. 1/4
— Senator Dr Sania Nishtar (@SaniaNishtar) May 11, 2020

Category 2 beneficiaries who entered the program through 8171 SMS service are also being paid and so far Rs. 35.347 billion have been paid out to 2.945 million people.

Concurrently, #EhsaasEmergencyCash payments to category-2 beneficiaries, who entered the program through 8171 SMS service, are also underway. So far, 2.945 million category-2 beneficiaries have withdrawn Rs. 35.347 bln. 2/4
— Senator Dr Sania Nishtar (@SaniaNishtar) May 11, 2020

Dr Sania Nishtar also added that payment to Category 1 is almost complete and so far Rs. 54.303 billion have been paid out to 4.403 million beneficiaries.

Payments to category-1 that includes regular #EhsaasKafaalat beneficiaries have almost been completed with Rs. 54.303 bln #EhsaasEmergencyCash paid out to 4.403 million beneficiaries. 3/4
— Senator Dr Sania Nishtar (@SaniaNishtar) May 11, 2020

In her last tweet she mentions the same total as released by the Ehsaas Emergency Cash twitter handle and we’ve discussed above.

Another announcement was also made in continuation to previous announcements. This announcement states that all those who have collected the financial aid of Rs. 12,000 should not apply to the Ehsaas Emergency Cash again as this aid will be provided only once to a single member in the family.