{"id":136204,"date":"2015-07-21T06:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T06:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=136204"},"modified":"2015-07-21T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T06:23:09","slug":"over-90000-households-to-benefit-from-leap-beginning-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=136204","title":{"rendered":"Over 90,000 households to benefit from LEAP beginning today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 37<sup>th<\/sup> manual and 11<sup>th<\/sup> e-payment cycle of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program will start from today to Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;F8UhPtCMdg3OUGz7Fdz92xGimOa6FLuw&#8221;]Over ninety thousand beneficiary households in 144 districts are expected to be paid their benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The breakdown of the payment is as follows:\u00a0 one member household will receive forty-eight Cedis, household with two eligible members receive sixty Cedis, household with three eligible beneficiaries gets seventy-two Cedis and a household with four (4) eligible beneficiaries or more receives ninety Cedis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These payments cover the months of May and June, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently there are two mechanisms of payment-the manual and electronic payments. The manual payments are made by Ghana Post Company Limited whereas the e-payments are done by MTN mobile money, GhIPSS (ezwich) and AYA Technologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The payment will be monitored by officials of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection as well as the Department of Social Welfare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a related development, victims of the June 3 flood and fire disaster will start receiving their cash transfers under the 3.9 million Ghana cedi emergency LEAP programme from Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 37th manual and 11th e-payment cycle of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program will start from today to Friday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;F8UhPtCMdg3OUGz7Fdz92xGimOa6FLuw&#8221;]Over ninety thousand beneficiary households in 144 districts are expected to be paid their benefits. The breakdown of the payment is as follows:\u00a0 one member household will receive forty-eight Cedis, household with two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":132297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-136204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}