Citizen Account Program begins applying financial capability criteria to applicants and activating field visits

Implementation of financial capability criteria and activation of field visits to verify eligibility as of January 2025.
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<Based on the royal directive to extend the work of the Citizen Account Program while continuing to provide additional support to the beneficiaries of the <a href="https://t.In addition to the continued opening of registration in the program, the program begins to apply additional eligibility criteria in order to increase the efficiency of support and ensure that it reaches the most deserving groups. Based on the approved support controls; the financial ability criteria will be applied to all beneficiaries and new applicants, and this application comes based on the definition of financial ability, which is defined as the funds and assets owned by the applicant and dependent that can be assessed, except for what the controls stipulate an exception based on the financial ability of the applicant and his/her dependents.

. <According to the eleventh article of the program controls, the actual entitlement of each applicant will be determined based on several criteria, including the total monthly income and financial ability of the applicant and his dependents, in order to ensure that government support is directed to the most deserving groups, as the preventive limit for the total financial ability of a family of 6 people is set at SR 4 million, and this limit decreases based on the size of the family, and the preventive limit for the total financial ability of an independent individual is SR 1,371,200 riyals, and the assessable financial capability criteria include "real estate assets, vehicles, cash assets, investment portfolios, as well as another indicator of financial capability such as the number of domestic workers.“ Each of the financial capability criteria has an upper limit, exceeding which leads to ineligibility in the program.

Activating field visits

The Citizen Account Program also begins to activate field visits in the context of ensuring the independence of the individual beneficiary, as the applicant as an independent individual is required to prove the independence of housing and match the national address, and will be coordinated with independent beneficiaries to schedule the field visit to ensure that their eligibility is not affected, and these visits are an additional tool to monitor the necessary requirements to ensure that the support is directed to its beneficiaries.

These visits are an additional tool to monitor the necessary requirements to ensure that the support is directed to its beneficiaries.

Application of the verification criterion

The Citizen Account Program will start applying the financial capability verification criterion and activating field visits for independent individuals as of the January 2025 cycle, while the program allows beneficiaries to submit any additional documents that support their eligibility and submit objections to the eligibility results within 90 days from the date of their issuance through the electronic portal or the program's application, and beneficiaries can inquire and communicate with the program through the unified call center or through its various digital channels.

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