{"id":120877,"date":"2019-01-08T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=120877"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:49:56","slug":"major-government-social-programs-reach-out-to-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/08\/major-government-social-programs-reach-out-to-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Major government social programs reach out to millions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Solidaridad-Card-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120934\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Solidaridad-Card-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Solidaridad-Card-Diario-Libre-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest report from the Progresando con Solidaridad (Prosoli) social programs directed by the Office of the Vice Presidency indicates that 828,887 families are receiving welfare deposits, according to a report in Diario Libre. Diario Libre says this impacts around 2.7 million persons of a voter population of 7.5 million persons, according to the Central Electoral Board. According to Enhogar, the average Domincian family is 3.3 persons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre reports that 495,595 families benefited from student vouchers and that 956, 906 households received Bonog\u00e1s Hogar (the propane gas subsidy) and 448,299 Bonoluz (the electricity subsidy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, the Social Cabinet budget increased by RD$1,257,562,712 for 2019, since the budget allocated will be RD$18,513,747,464, while for 2018 it was RD $ 17,256,184,752.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Comer es primero&#8221; has budgeted for 2019 RD $ 8,642,337,900; Prosoli RD $ 1,285,679,900; Bonoluz RD $ 2,068.22,188 Home Gas Bond RD $ 2,628,000.00; the School Attendance Incentive 800 million, and Aid to Elderly RD$399,996,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre says the social programs are a way to maintain political partisanship among voters. But the leading PRM opposition party was prompt to say they would keep the social programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/subsidios-impactan-a-mas-de-2-7-millones-de-personas-y-son-buenas-armas-politicas-DO11791442\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/prm-cuestiona-subsidios-sirvan-para-promover-pld-BI11801321\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report from the Progresando con Solidaridad (Prosoli) social programs directed by the Office of the Vice Presidency indicates that 828,887 families are receiving welfare deposits, according to a report in Diario Libre. Diario Libre says this impacts around 2.7 million persons of a voter population of 7.5 million persons, according to the Central &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/08\/major-government-social-programs-reach-out-to-millions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120935,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120877\/revisions\/120935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}