The higher committee on extraordinary insurances has agreed under the chairmanship of Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali to offer extraordinary pensions in a number of cases as in train crash incidents or where veterans have made exceptional services to the country.  The cases were 847 cases in all including medical situations with a cost of 139 thousand pounds monthly.

The Minister announced the inclusion of seven more illnesses that warrant insurances including liver and kidney failures, amputations, bone scars, chest allergies. An exception has also been made in cases where the social circumstance is particularly

Head of the government insurance fund Rashad Salem has announced that the government allowed citizens to merge more than one pension. 

The Minister announced that the Ministry’s plan is to upgrade the social insurance authority alongside the insurance outlets in Cairo and the governorates.  The plan, according to the Minister, will upscale the computers and introduce auto payment in a number of crowded areas to alleviate the burden on pensioners among whom 75,000 use smart cards.

(source: Ministry of Finance)