Increasing the value of “the support of the poor” in 2025 awaits a government decision

Since the Finance Law entered into force, and what came before that in its presentation before the House of Representatives by the government from the latter’s intention to raise the value of direct social support subsidies in 2025, “poor families” in the Kingdom are still awaiting this step in the context of the continued cost of living.

The provision of the government’s submission of a bill of financial law 2025, which entered into force, to continue this program by raising its value to reach each of the first three children who school to 250 dirhams, and for children under the age of six years or in a disability position to 350 dirhams.

According to the same source, support will be raised for each of the first three children who are not school to 175 dirhams. As for the orphans on the father’s side less than six years of teachers, support, according to the draft law itself, will reach 375 dirhams, while respecting the ceiling of the minimum of this support, which is 500 dirhams per month for each family.

These increases are mainly related to monthly grants related to childhood associated risk benefits, which the government confirms will also rise in the next 2026.

A number of beneficiaries of these benefits complain of the delay in the increase announced in the Finance Law on the current year, according to what Hespress has seen on social media.

In response to these raised questions, a source familiar with these questions explained that “the agenda of raising the value of direct social support was determined by the decree related to its application, which is part of the legal arsenal organizing social protection workshops.”

The spokesman, in a statement to Hespress, linked his identity not to disclose his identity, directly the decision to increase the value of direct social support subsidies, to “a government decision that is taken according to the government agenda, while adhering to what is announced in the organizational texts.”

The source stated that the scope set by Decree No. 2.23.1067 related to the application of the direct social support system determines “the year of attempting to activate the increase in the value of support”, which is currently 2025, in an explanation that the matter is not related to a specific time or month within the year, stressing that “this matter falls within the basic steps in these workshops that are keen to adhere to by all the actors,” according to his expression.

Until waiting for the government move, Mohamed Shulri, an economic expert, monitored three scenarios that justify this delay, including the scenario related to “the link of the financial composition of the program with the profits of the clearing fund.”

Shaliri suggested that this increase in these benefits is directly dismissed after “the height that the government remains committed to regarding the prices of butane gas.”

He continued: “The most important thing is what came in the decree that determined this support, which talks about the Sunnah and not a specific time,” which means that the government has the entire year until it decides the appropriate time.

In this context, the spokesman believes that every month the government continued to delay this increase, it has achieved financial margins of profit in the budget of this year, especially since “the matter relates to millions of children and a huge budget,” as he put it.