A few of the applicants from the first round made sure to ask Dr. Barnett about the beneficiaries who have still not received their money under the first phase of the Unemployment Relief program. She said that a number of them should have received their money today:
Hon. Dr. Carla Barnett - Minister of State, Labour, Local Government, Rural Development
"All have still not been delivered. On my way here, I was checking on it, and there's the last batch of quite a few hundred that are being delivered today, and that should be last of it for the top-up cards. And that should be the last of the transactions on phase 1. We're trying to tie that up, to finish that up, finally in the next few days. And that should be the last of it for the top-up cards, and that should be the last of the transactions on phase 1. So, we're trying to tie that up finally, over these next few days."
According to Dr. Barnett, if you are receiving your benefits from phase 1 this late, you should receive all the money you would have received in 3 months, in one lump sum.
She is also asking for beneficiaries to hold on to their top-up cards if they qualified for phase 1, and they are applying to receive aid a second time.
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