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ขอเครดิตฟรีหน่อยครับสมัครปุ๊บรับปั๊บไม่ต้องฝาก
Governments often support disadvantaged citizens with pensions, commonly in the form of monthly cash transfers. The Delhi government provides pensions to widows and other disadvantaged women, yet the majority of eligible women are not enrolled in this scheme. The researcher conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of providing eligible women with program information and various levels of application assistance for the Delhi Widow Pension Scheme on program knowledge, application completion, and enrollment. Offering more involved application assistance increased average application rates, particularly among more vulnerable women. Enrollment in the pension program also increased across the levels of application assistance that were offered.
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Widows are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in India’s social hierarchy. In order to support these women, the Indian government offers state-level pension schemes for widows and other disadvantaged women. One state-level program is the Delhi Widow Pension Scheme, which is available to widowed, divorced, separated, or abandoned women ages 18-59 with a household income below a given threshold (at age 60 they become eligible for old-age pensions). Eligible women receive bank transfers worth INR1,500 every month (about US$25), or 70 percent of monthly median per capita consumption. However, two-thirds of eligible women were not enrolled in the program in 2014.
