BOPEU Calls For Review Of Social Protection Schemes

“There is a worrisome trend of new schemes, strategies, and programmes that most of the time never fulfil their mandates,” the BOPEU leader remarked in his  pre-budget speech document released two weeks ahead of the presentation of the  national budget for 2017/18.

BOPEU is also concerned that the current social welfare programmes such as Self Help Housing Agency (SHHA) are not all inclusive, adding that there is need to increase the scope of social welfare programmes to a level that will include cadres in teaching, nursing and other professions. “A  traditional domestic household is by nature an extended family and if the scope to the access of such programmes is broadened, it will inevitably cover more members of the traditional family. The end result is an increased average worker’s purchasing power as more family members subsequently get enrolled in social welfare programmes”.