The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services (MSDFS) says it has received several calls from Members of Parliament, relating to the delivery and use of the Christmas Food Cards for 2023.
In this regard, the MSDFS, via a release, says First Citizens Bank Limited, the Card Provider, has been notified of several challenges being experienced and is currently testing solutions to ensure full access is afforded to cardholders throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services says it will continue to work assiduously with First Citizens Bank Limited, to rectify these problems in the shortest possible timeframe.
The news comes after St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen and Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee, both lamented that some of their needy constituents had been subjected to great inconvenience and embarrassment at supermarket check-outs buying groceries when their government-issued food cards had failed to function.