Latest update April 7th, 2025 12:08 AM
Over 500,000 cash grant cheques distributed, 100,000 more to go – AG
Kaieteur News- Government has successfully distributed over 500,000 of the $100,000 cash grant cheques, with approximately 100,000 remaining to be handed out, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall
Nandlall made announcement on Tuesday evening during his weekly show “Issues in the News.” During his programme he acknowledged that while challenges were encountered, the overall success of the programme far outweighed any issues faced. He said for every one problematic transaction, 200 others were processed smoothly. “Yes, there were problems, but we have completed. We are completing the exercise, an exercise of this magnitude, an exercise that is of this unprecedented nature, would inevitably have encountered difficulties,” he told his listeners. The Attorney General continued, “And did we encounter difficulties? Yes, we did, and we are not ashamed to accept the difficulties that we encountered.”
Nandlall also addressed concerns about individuals who may have registered for the cash grant but died before the cheques were ready. He explained that the first relative of deceased individuals can collect the grant. The AG highlighted that under the amended Deceased Persons Estate Administration Act, which was updated on November 25, 2024, states that any first relative, such as a spouse or child, can collect the cash grant on behalf of the deceased.
“We permitted and authorised any person, organisation, entity, Bank, company or Government, who has money for any deceased person to pay that money to a duly authorised first relative of the deceased, up to $750,000 and what you have to do is to show the evidence of the death of the deceased, so the death certificate should be produced, and the person who is seeking to obtain the money must be either the spouse of the deceased, the surviving spouse or a child of the deceased.”
“To establish your relationship as a child, you can produce a birth certificate where the deceased will be stated as your mother or father. If you are asserting yourself to be a spouse, then a marriage certificate ought to suffice. If you were in a common law union with the deceased, then in our law, we recognise common law marriages,” Nandlall added. In this instance persons are urged to bring forth anyone, who can support the spouse that they were in a common law union with the deceased.
Nandlall also criticised opposition members who, in his view, failed to recognise the programme’s benefits, instead focusing on a few isolated negatives in an attempt to discredit the effort.
“And of course, they (opposition members) recognise the benefits of this initiative to the Government, and in their calculating minds, they are taking into account the political benefits which they are surmising will accrue to the Government through this initiative and they have launched a campaign of magnifying the few negatives so as to drown out the success, the overall success of the programme. But they have failed abysmally.”
(Over 500,000 cash grant cheques distributed, 100,000 more to go – AG)
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