PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says the proposed national identification system (NIDS) will help to identify the nation’s elderly population who should benefit from the social pension programme.
“The NIDS will be the basis on which programmes like this will work by ensuring that the benefit gets to the identified beneficiary. It [NIDS] is on its way and we will be able to identify and track all our seniors and provide them with this social safety net guaranteed income benefit,” Holness told the virtual launch of the social pension programme yesterday.
NIDS, which is still before Parliament, will help with the […]
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