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Inclusive Social Protection: Social protection and access to cash assistance
Guide
This is one document in a group of documents about social protection.
You can use these documents to help you talk to decision-makers about social protection and what your government should be doing to support people with disabilities.
This paper is about a part of social protection which is called cash assistance.
What is cash assistance?
In many countries, people with disabilities receive a type of social protection support called cash assistance.
Cash assistance is money given by governments directly to people. This money is to help people who:
- may not be able to work
- may be poor or vulnerable
- may have disabilities and have extra costs in their lives
Sometimes cash assistance is called:
- Benefits
- Disability allowances or pensions
- Social Insurance payments