800 BENEFIT FROM HOUSE REPAIR GRANTS

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Eight hundred people have benefitted from the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services' House Repair Programme, to the tune of 3.5 million dollars. The Ministry's goal is to increase the number of households benefitting from the Home Improvement Grants to fifteen hundred annually, by 2030.

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00:00800 people will soon be able to sleep better at night having benefited from

00:05home repair grants courtesy the Ministry of Social Development and the Family

00:09Services. A total of 3.5 million dollars has been spent on the program for the

00:15year thus far across three grant categories. And just to provide a

00:20breakdown of what we are giving out today two million three hundred and

00:24thirty eight thousand two hundred and twenty six dollars and fifty cents for

00:29minor house repairs. Five hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and eleven

00:35dollars and eight cents in sanitary plumbing assistance. Four hundred ninety

00:42six thousand four hundred and fifty nine dollars and twenty two cents in house

00:48wiring assistance. A significant portion of this funding will go towards victims

00:53of disaster. Recipients may receive between fifteen and twenty thousand

00:58dollars per grant. Minor house repairs as we saw in the video and this provides

01:05up to fifteen thousand dollars in materials only for the repair upgrade of

01:10the dwelling houses and up to twenty thousand dollars in materials only to

01:15effect repairs upgrades in the event of a disaster. Our sanitary plumbing

01:23assistance provides up to fifteen thousand dollars in materials under

01:27normal circumstances and in the event of a disaster for the repair or upgrade of

01:32toilet and bathroom facilities. Applicants must have ownership and

01:38authorization to occupy the property for which the application for assistance is

01:44requested and in some cases must meet the financial eligibility criteria. The

01:51program seeks to specifically target the poor and vulnerable groups in

01:55society including but not limited to our senior citizens, persons with

02:00disabilities, unemployed persons, victims of domestic violence and single-parent

02:05household and has proven to be an instrumental component of the

02:10ministry's plan to ensure that the poor and vulnerable citizens throughout the

02:15country reside under habitable conditions. A full listing of eligibility

02:20criteria and necessary documentation is available on the ministry's website.

02:26Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.

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