Chester Sam­bra­no

A to­tal of One Hun­dred and Sev­en­ty-Five Thou­sand (175,000) clients of the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices are set to ben­e­fit from the One-off/One-time Trans­porta­tion Grant, val­ued at $1,000.

This ini­tia­tive was an­nounced by the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert, dur­ing his bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion for Fis­cal 2023.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry, from to­mor­row the cheques will be dis­trib­uted by TTPost, in keep­ing with this bud­getary mea­sure, which will cost tax­pay­ers a to­tal of One Hun­dred and Sev­en­ty-Five Mil­lion Dol­lars ($175,000,000).

Ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Don­na Cox, “I ap­plaud the one-off trans­port grant of $1,000 for all the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices clients who cur­rent­ly re­ceive pub­lic as­sis­tance, se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion, the dis­abil­i­ty and the food sup­port grants. 

I am con­fi­dent that it will pro­vide ad­di­tion­al sup­port to these vul­ner­a­ble in­di­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies. This mea­sure is ac­tu­al­ly an added bonus for our se­niors who use pub­lic trans­port”.