Her Excellency Mrs. Amna bint Ahmed Al Rumaihi, Minister of Housing and Urban Planning, praised the Cabinet’s decision to approve amending the provisions of the decision regulating housing, which aims to restructure the standards related to the fifth category eligible for housing services, and the mechanism for calculating bonuses for the monthly income standard, in a way that ensures expanding the circle of beneficiaries of services. Housing.
She confirmed that the Ministry has begun taking procedural steps to implement the decision of the Council of Ministers to approve a proposal to amend the mechanism for calculating bonuses when calculating the monthly income for all categories eligible for housing service, so that it includes the basic salary plus fixed bonuses whose value exceeds 100 dinars, provided that the option is left to citizens to calculate the total. Other bonuses according to their desire, noting that these procedures include ministerial decisions to introduce requirements that ensure the start of application of the new standards.
Minister Al-Rumaihi said that the approval of the proposal to amend the mechanism for calculating bonuses when calculating the monthly income for all categories eligible for housing service comes with the aim of ensuring that existing applicants are not affected by bonuses whose value does not exceed 100 dinars, and to give the citizen the freedom to choose in calculating them, with the aim of raising the value of the financing that he will receive. It contributes to ensuring that holders of existing and new applications are not affected by the increase in bonuses, noting that this comes in response to the joint coordination between the legislative and executive authorities, and in accordance with citizens’ proposals that are received by the Ministry through their Excellencies the representatives or through various communication channels, foremost of which is the National Complaints System. And the proposals "Continue".
In a related context, Minister Amna Al-Rumaihi appreciated the Council of Ministers’ approval of the proposal to expand the eligibility criteria for the fifth category of housing applications, which includes divorced, abandoned or widowed women who have no children or single women who are orphans, noting that according to the decision approved by the Council of Ministers, a category will be added. New for beneficiaries of this category, which are divorced and widowed Bahraini women with non-Bahraini minor children, in addition to divorcees, widows, and abandoned women (without children).
She also continued that the fifth category will witness an expansion in the age group criterion to start from 21 years without a maximum age, and the maximum income has been raised to 800 dinars instead of 600 dinars, and with regard to the rental value, it has become 100 dinars or a quarter of the income, whichever is less, after it was Determined by a fixed value.
Al-Rumaihi noted that the decision to expand the fifth category comes in line with the recommendation of the Supreme Council for Women regarding expanding the eligibility criteria for the fifth category, with the aim of providing adequate housing and achieving living stability for female citizens, praising the process of joint cooperation between the Ministry and the Council, and the gains achieved in terms of providing suitable housing for women. Bahraini, especially the fifth category, which was created in 2015, and the Masaken project designated to accommodate the demands of this category.
