Almost a month following the delivery of the 2022 Food Bond began, more than 1 million 590 thousand people have benefited from this subsidy of 270 soles that is granted only once to seniors living in poverty and extreme poverty.
According to information from the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis), of the universe of people who have already received this subsidy, 34.1% are citizens of the urban area, while 31.9% belong to rural areas. As is known, this benefit seeks to alleviate the increase in prices of products in the basic family basket.
Find out if you are a beneficiary
To find out if you are a beneficiary or not, the only official means are the free line 101 of the Midis or the website bonoalimentario.gob.pe.
Likewise, the Midis reiterates that it is important to know that to avoid scams, you should only consult the official media, Thus one should not go to the handlers, Do not share personal information, do not divulge withdrawal codes or passwords, or consult other pages of dubious origin.
How to charge and when
- Group 1: includes beneficiaries who already have a bank account and digital wallets active as Yape, Tunki and Agora. The payment for these people started on November 2.
- Group 2: beneficiaries who live in remote and hard-to-reach communities, where there is no financial system infrastructure. The payment modality is through pay carts of the companies transporting values in focal points of communities (mountain and jungle areas). The pay It started on November 9.
- Group 3: stands for citizens without bank accounts and who do not have a cell phone in their namewho will receive the subsidy through the windows of the Banco de la Nación. From November 2.
- Group 4: integrated to beneficiaries who do not have a bank account. Digital wallets will be opened to these people to receive the bonus from November 24.
Payment by authorized third party
Beneficiaries of the Alimentary Voucher who present some disability and/or deterioration of their functional capacity, typical of the stage of older adulthood or accident, may request the collection of the monetary subsidy through a third person, until November 30, as the Midis recalled.
The registration of the designation request to an authorized third party is done on the platform consultas.bonoalimentario.gob.pe or through the personnel distributed throughout the country in the Territorial Units of the Pensión 65 program at the following link: www.gob.pe/institucion/pension65/sedes.
