Over 73,000 people benefit from social security pension in Oman

Muscat:The number of people benefiting from the Social Security Scheme (SSS) in May 2021 stood at 73,123 individuals and families, with a total of OMR7.78 million distributed to them.

In a statement to Oman News Agency (ONA), Salim Ali Al Oweisi of the Social Welfare Department, the Ministry of Social Development, said that the SSS beneficiaries fall in eight categories and get pay as follows:

As many 2,307 cases fall in the category of ‘Orphans’, with a sum of OMR249,479 disbursed to them monthly; 3,577 cases of ‘Widows’ (OMR439,358); 11,244 cases of ‘Divorced’ women (OMR906,682); 31,288 ‘Elderly’ people (OMR3,467,465); 3,184 ‘Unmarried’ girls (OMR274,914); 5,949 cases of ‘Disability’ (OMR2,416,656); 186 ‘Families of Imprisoned’ supporters (OMR28,327) and 91 cases of ‘Deserted’” persons (OMR12,464).

Outlining conditions for applying to the SSS Assistance, Al Oweisi told ONA that the applicant should be of Omani citizenship, be among the above-mentioned eight deserving cases or a person not having any regular source of livelihood that covers or exceeds its needs as per the schedule set for pension cases stated in the SSS Law or a person not having any supporter who is capable of bearing the cost of sustaining the case.