Service Directory
Social Security Service
This is the monthly social assistance specified in Law No. (18) of 2006 on social assistance and its amendments (Social Assistance Law). It is provided for Bahraini families and individuals who reside in Bahrain and who meet the entitlement conditions expressed in the law, and whose monthly income is below the required line/threshold to provide basic living needs.
Service Conditions
- The applicant must be Bahraini
- The applicant must be a permanent resident in the Kingdom of Bahrain
- The applicant must not have a financially capable relative who is obliged to spend on.
- The applicant must prove by linking with the official authorities that the total monthly income is below the minimum necessary approved of basic life requirements.
- The applicant must prove the necessary situation of the disbursement of social assistance according to official documents approved by the competent government authorities.
- When a citizen applies for social security, an electricity and water bill must be attached to his request. When the request (social security) is accepted, the employee of the registration department sends the bill to the competent employee in the ministry for follow-up and submitting the beneficiary case to the Electricity and Water Authority.
Required Attachments
- Fill out the social service application form , View Document
- Original valid identity cards of the head of household and children by social status.
- Original bank document of the applicant including International Account Number (IBAN).
- A copy of the subscriber bill of the Electricity and Water Authority to get the discount amount.
- A recent salary certificate (if any).
- Death certificate of one or both parents or the divorce certificate of the parents (unmarried girl).
- Divorce document, custody judgment and the amount of alimony for the category (divorced with children).
- Proof of continuity of education (boy's category).
- A statement from the Public Prosecution issued by the Ministry of Interior stating that the head of the family is imprisoned for the category of (imprisoned family).
- Death certificate of the father or the rule of adoption for the category (orphan) - (be unknown parents in the rule of orphan).
- Medical report from a consultant identifying and proving the type of disability or disability approved by a government hospital in the Kingdom for the category of (disabled) / (Inability to work).
- Court ruling regarding desertion and alimony for the (abandoned) category.
- Attaching a certificate of non-expenditure of working and unmarried children for all categories entitled to social security in accordance with the above regulations.
Legal Regulations
- Law No. (18) of 2006 on social assistance and its amendments
- Decision No. (64) of 2013 regarding mechanisms and procedures for disbursing social assistance
Process Time
- 30 Working Days
Service Provider
Ministry of Social Development
Cooperative Entities
- Ministry of Finance and National Economy
- Electricity and Water Authority
Service Processes
- The applications are decided electronically from the system, unless it is required to be decided by the committee according to the criteria and conditions.
- The amount will be transferred to the beneficiaries' accounts starting from the 15th of each month in the various local banks.
- The Social Assistant Department prepares lists of new candidates from social security and submits them to the Electricity and Water Authority to take the necessary action regarding the adoption of these families within the royal award.
- SA_Muharraq@social.gov.bh
- SA_Manama@social.gov.bh
- SA_Fakhro@social.gov.bh
- 17102375
- 17102348
- 17102373
- 17102372
