Wednesday 31 December 2025 – 11:02 AM
The Ministry of Social Solidarity is working to provide an integrated package of policies and programs to build a social safety net for the most needy groups and families, as the social protection system in Egypt is based on constitutional obligations, international human rights agreements, and the national development agenda, thus consolidating the state’s responsibility to ensure social protection as an inherent right of the citizen.
Solidarity: What has been achieved in social protection programs under Sisi is tens of times greater than what has been spent since the 1950s
The new Social Security Law No. 12 issued in April 2025 is considered one of the most important pieces of legislation activating Article 17 of the Constitution, as it expanded the scope of services provided to families and individuals in need of care, and transformed social assistance into a legal right based on conditional and unconditional cash support programs, precise targeting mechanisms, and linking social protection with economic empowerment to shift from dependence to production.
In its report, the Ministry of Social Solidarity confirmed that the achievements achieved in social protection programs during the era of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi are dozens of times greater than what the Egyptian state has spent on these programs since the 1950s, noting that the Ministry has expanded its cash and in-kind support programs, to cover the largest possible segment of beneficiaries, while raising the efficiency of targeting and governance of disbursing cash support to those entitled to it.
Regarding allocations for social support, grants and benefits, the Ministry explained Solidarity Social Security said it rose to 742.6 billion Egyptian pounds in the fiscal year 2025-2026, including 54 billion allocated for cash support, an increase of 17% over the previous one, bringing the average value of support per family to 900 pounds, with a minimum of 700 pounds.
In this way, the total cash support financing from the state’s general budget has witnessed significant development over the past ten years, with an increase of 1,000% of the value of cash support estimated at 5 billion pounds in the fiscal year 2013-2014.
The Takaful program targets 56% of the total beneficiaries of families who are widows, divorcees, abandoned women, and wives of prisoners who have children below the poverty line and children up to 26 years old, while the Karama program targets 44% of the total beneficiaries of the orphan category, 2% of the elderly 65 years and over, 27% of people with disabilities, 63% of girls who have reached 50 years of age without marriage, in addition to widows and divorcees. Abandoned women who do not have children are 8%.
The number of beneficiaries of cash support has doubled over the years, from 1.7 million families in 2015 to 4.7 million families in 2025 (75% females, 25% males), while 3.36 million families have graduated and exited to date, bringing the total number of beneficiary families who received cash support in this period to 8.1 million beneficiary families.
