Federal Government has resumed payment of stipends to beneficiaries in Oyo State under the Household Uplifting Programme-Conditional Cash Transfer HUP-CCT.
The state Coordinator of the programme, Ezekiel Oladipo, said that Oyo was one of the eight states where the programme started in 2016.
Oladipo said that the programme covered 13,830 beneficiary’s households across the 33 local governments of the state.
The programme, he said, has three components.
This, he said, is the base, which is N5, 000 per beneficiary’s household monthly, the top-up otherwise classified as co-responsibility – such household gets N10, 000.
The coordinator said all the beneficiaries will be paid 12 months out of 14 months being owed them by the Federal Government.
He, however, said that the ongoing phase will cover six months payment while the remaining six months will be settled in due course.
He advised the beneficiaries to judiciously make use of the money in a way that would make an impact in their livelihoods.
Some of the beneficiaries commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the poverty intervention programme.
