Social Welfare Program
The Social Welfare Program is a cornerstone of the UAE’s policies and initiatives dedicated to supporting Emirati citizens. The program focuses on empowering low-income families to meet their essential needs.The Social Welfare Program is integrated with other national support systems across education, healthcare, housing, empowerment opportunities, and employment. These systems collaborate to build a comprehensive framework that enhances the stability of Emirati families and enables them to fulfill their vital role in the nation’s economic and social development.
Our Goals
Supporting Emirati families and strengthening their stability
The program aims to deliver effective support to Emirati families with limited income to meet their essential needs, promote family stability, and enabling them to secure a dignified standard of living.
Providing social protection for the most vulnerable
The program extends support to specific groups of citizens facing exceptional circumstances, health problems or social challenges, ensuring they receive the necessary protection within a comprehensive and integrated support framework.
Advancing economic and social empowerment
The program helps capable beneficiaries gradually enter the labor market, enhancing their productivity, strengthening their financial independence, and enabling them to contribute meaningfully to the national economy.
Social Welfare Program Allowances
The Social Welfare Program includes the following allowances:
Individual
Spouse
Child
Job Seekers and Unemployed
Housing Allowance and Academic Excellence Allowance for Higher Education
Beneficiaries
Continuous Support
Special Cases Eligible for Social Welfare Program
The Social Welfare Program considers certain beneficiaries’ health conditions and household living situations and defines frameworks according to the following: People of Determination who cannot work, those with health disabilities or chronic diseases that affect their ability to work and low-income individuals with social conditions that affect their ability to work (orphans and abandoned, divorced, widowed, Wife of a prisoner and married to foreigners, provided being the caregiver of children under six years old, or children of determination under 21 years old or up to 25 years old if they are enrolled in university or performing national service) according to a social condition assessment.
