More elderly women have benefited from SAGE than men

The Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development, Peace Mutuuzo says that elderly women have been recorded as the biggest recipients of the national roll out program of the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE).
Government rolled out the SAGE program to cover all districts of the country last year. Under the scheme, older persons who were 65 years and above and those who were 60 years and above in Karamoja region, were given a monthly stipend of 25,000 Shillings.
While speaking at the national celebration of the International Women’s Day 2021 at State House Entebbe, Mutuuzo said since the launch of SAGE at last’s year Women’s day event, her ministry has completed the roll out and 60 percent of the program beneficiaries are women.
She reported that a total of 914,652 beneficiaries have received their payment in the first one year of the national roll out and that out of these, 548,792 are women while 365,860 are men. Mutuuzo says that the national roll out of the program has delivered 67 billion Shillings to the beneficiaries in all districts.