Following the devastating floods and landslides that occurred in Trinidad last week, the Ministry of Social Development has revealed that over 3,000 applications for relief funding have been sent in from persons who were adversely affected.
The ministry, via a release on Monday, said it had received 3,246 applications that will be processed by a special unit within the National Social Development Programme, using a different process flow from the past. This, it said, will see payments being made within a shorter period (two weeks).
The ministry said it had also brought in additional resources to support the effort in the field and augmented the administrative processing staff who are managing the online systems.
Anyone making claims must have some form of national identification and evidence of their loss, which must be validated by the Disaster Management Unit or the officers in the field from the ministry.
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