When the government imposed a lockdown on Zimbabwe as a COVID-19 containment measure, it promised to give $200 to 1 million people for 3 months. However, the government admitted to paying $200 000 of the $200 Million it had promised and the payment was done once and was stopped when the government announced it was suspending some mobile money to facilitate investigating black-market activities among other reasons like there were errors in the details of the beneficiaries and other reasons.
The government last week made a promise to resume the disbursement again according to The Sunday Mail. Quoting the RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya, the publication said the government is finalising the modalities to resume the disbursements because the governor said:
The audit is almost complete; we are finalising it. The findings of the audit will inform us on the way forward and how the payments will be done going forward, and we are sure we will be done soon. We are, however, urging the beneficiaries to open bank accounts to ease the challenge currently being faced.
The government also increased the grant from $180 to $300 but is yet make the payout to the beneficiaries since they increased the grant.
More: The Sunday Mail