In the face of the current economic crisis, the Welfare Benefits Board has worked to introduce a new mechanism to identify the prosperous, elderly, disabled allowances, and those who really deserve financial assistance.
According to this, a system of obtaining relevant data has been started and the purpose of this is to prepare a data system regarding how many people are currently benefiting and how many people should be recruited for this purpose, the Finance Ministry Secretary said.
Finance Ministry Secretary KMM Siriwardena mentioned this while attending a press conference held at the Ministry of Finance.
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