The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud directed, and based on what was submitted by the Crown Prince, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, Prince Muhammad bin Salman, to extend the work of the citizen account program with its current mechanism while continuing to provide additional temporary support to the beneficiaries of the citizen account program for a period of four years. months until the July 2023 batch, in addition to continuing to open registration in the program, as part of their continuous care for male and female citizens in order to protect eligible families from the repercussions of the effects of global price hikes.
This comes as a continuation of the royal directive issued in July of 2022, which included allocating an amount of 20 billion riyals, including eight billion riyals, as additional financial support for the beneficiaries of the citizen account program at the end of the fiscal year 2022, in addition to reopening registration in the citizen account program according to previously announced controls, as well as The royal directive, issued in January 2023, to extend the additional support for a period of three months for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which lasted for the month of March.
Okaz (Jeddah)