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15,000 to join State’s social welfare scheme

Inua Jamii programme beneficiaries at past 2017 meet in Nyeri County. [File, Standard]

The government plans to replace 15,000 cash transfer beneficiaries who have left Inua Jamii programme through natural attrition.

Social Protection Principal Secretary Nelson Marwa said an audit had shown that 13,000 beneficiaries, most of them older people, had been exited from the Sh26 billion a year programme through deaths.

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