Window for subsidy card holders to update their data closes

The window for subsidy card holders to update their data closed yesterday, with approximately 18.2 mn of 19 mn beneficiaries meeting the deadline, Al Shorouk reports. Card holders who failed to meet yesterday’s deadline will not be eliminated from the system, and will have a chance to issue a new card, a Supply Ministry source tells the newspaper. The ministry has formed a committee to handle individual cases where citizens did not update their data by the deadline but are deserving beneficiaries, Al Mal reports. As of the beginning of August, card holders will be allowed to add newborns to their family data, according to Al Shorouk.