The National Social Insurance Authority continues to implement the plan to transfer plastic pension cards.blue cardWhich is nearing its expiry date, to free MISA cards, as part of the transformation plan for financial inclusion under the auspices of the Central Bank.
Major General Gamal Awad, head of the National Social Insurance Authority, said that to increase the outlets for disbursing insurance benefits, the blue card holders can go to any branch of the mobile phone companies to submit a request to open an electronic wallet through the personal phone number to transfer all insurance benefits to the phone number. , pointing out that those responsible for disbursing the blue authority cards were divided according to numerical densities, as the targeted governorates were divided into three phases, including the first phase, which started from the beginning of this year and ended last March in 11 governorates: Suez – Ismailia – Port Said – North Sinai – South Sinai – Red Sea – Marsa Matrouh – New Valley – Luxor – Aswan.
While the second phase began in January 2022 and ended at the end of April, it includes 8 governorates: “Kafr El-Sheikh – Damietta – Menoufia – Qalyubia – Fayoum – Beni Suef – Minya – Qena”. Months to receive a free Meeza card from the nearest office until the end of this May, stressing that the blue card will remain valid until it expires during the periods specified in each stage and will not be delivered to insurance offices.
The National Social Insurance renewed its appeal to the owners of the blue card “to quickly replace these cards with a benefit card due to its expiry date, as part of the transformation plan for financial inclusion under the auspices of the Central Bank. To ATM cards on beneficiaries’ accounts in banks or electronic wallets, out of the total number of pensioners and pension beneficiaries, which are 10 million and 700 thousand beneficiaries, provided that the rest of the plastic pension cards for a number close to one million and 150 thousand beneficiaries are transferred to a feature card amid the facilitation of all procedures. For pensioners to extract an advantage card with ease.