Social Welfare and Benefits

 Social Services Sector Services

For people with special needs 

   1. Grant of living allowance to persons with special needs. (Rs.5000)
   2. Providing home assistance to people with special needs
   3. Providing self-employment assistance to persons with special needs
   4. Providing sanitary facilities to people with special needs
   5. Implementation of Community Based Rehabilitation Programme
   6. Providing equipment to people with special needs
   7. Issuance of identity cards to persons with special needs
   8. Referral for vocational training to persons with special needs
   9. Conduct mobile eye clinics
  10. Payment of Bursary and Sickness Allowance from Provincial Social Service Fund
  11. Maintenance and supervision of self-help organizations for the disabled
  12. Celebration of International Day of Disability

For people with special needs 

    1. Grant of Elderly Living Allowance (Rs. 2000)
    2. Financing the health of the elderly
    3. Coordination activities of the elders
    4. Registration and monitoring of village elders' committees
    5. Providing elderly self-employed
    6. Issuance of Adult Identity Cards
    7. Celebration of International Day of Elderly

For common people 

    1. Providing assistance to kidney patients (Rs. 5000)
    2. Provision of public assistance (Cancer/ Tuberculosis/ Thalassemia/ Lemur).
    3. Registration and monitoring of NGOs
    4. Providing single parent rehabilitation assistance
    5. Payment of Casualty Disaster Assistance
    6. Financing from the President's Fund
    7. Psychological counseling activities

Amount of beneficiaries receiving government allowances

Forms available from the Social Services Division

• Rural Elders Society Registration

• Disable Person Welfare

• Disease Aid Application

• Elders ID Application

• Elders Living Aid Application

• NGO Registration Application

• Public Aid Application