Cash Grant registration begins for persons without bank accounts and those who prefer cheque payments

The Ministry of Finance has launched the third-phase of the $100,000 national cash grant initiative, targeting persons without Bank Accounts, and those who prefer to be paid the grant via cheque.

The first phase of the distribution process saw persons receiving direct deposits of the cash grant into their bank accounts including Central Government Employees and citizens who self-registered using their mobile phones.

The Government then moved to the second phase, which entailed special outreaches to hinterland and outlying communities which did not have access to banking facilities, as well as homes of shut-ins, persons in shelters, hostels and senior citizen homes.

In a recorded video, Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh said the new phase is those persons who prefer cheque payments.

“The same cash grant portal that was established by the young and very talented team at the National Data Management Authority—now has an option for persons to self-register, but to select as their preferred option for the delivery of their cash grant, the modality of a cheque. These persons will be able to register on the cash grant portal (cashgrant.gov.gy) and indicate the option that they prefer to be paid by cheque. They will then receive a call when their cheque would have been processed and is ready to be uplifted,” the Finance Minister said.

He added that persons who do not have bank accounts and were previously not registered can visit cashgrant.gov.gy, register, and enter their relevant identity and other information—including other such details as scanning their ID card, providing their other pertinent details and completing the liveness check.

Dr. Singh said cheques will then be printed for those persons and those payments will be distributed across the country.

“You may wonder how you will be aware that your cheque is available to be collected and when and where you should go to collect those cheques. There are two means through which you will be notified- the first is that on the portal, you may on any subsequent occasion to registering, log in and once you log in to the portal, the portal will provide you with an up-to-date status of your application, meaning it will either tell you that your application is being processed, or, once your cheque has been cut and is available at a location close to where you live, it will tell you that your cheque is available at a specified location and will be ready for collection at a specified date and time,” Dr. Singh pointed out.

So far, Dr. Singh said the first two phases were successfully rolled out with more than 470,000 persons already receiving the cash grant payment.

“As a result of this first two phases of implementation of the National Cash grant initiative, I am pleased to report to you that we have processed a total of 470, 420 cash grants. This translates into a total of $47B being injected into the disposable income into the Guyanese population,” the Finance Minister said.

As part of the registration process, the applicant must be in Guyana at the time of registration for the grant.

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