{"id":12526,"date":"2025-07-03T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12526"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:05:08","slug":"retailer-held-for-fleecing-bisp-beneficiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12526","title":{"rendered":"Retailer held for fleecing BISP beneficiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A monitoring team of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has apprehended a retailer for making an illegal deduction of Rs11,000 from the amount granted to a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The team immediately deactivated the payment device used by the retail service provider, Waqar.<\/p>\n<p>The action was taken amid allegations of corruption in the disbursement of BISP financial assistance to deserving women in Khanewal.<\/p>\n<p>A beneficiary of the social support programme, named Hayat, was deprived of Rs11,000 by the retailer at Lahore Mor.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving the complaint, the BISP monitoring team acted promptly, recovered the deducted amount and returned it to the recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Departmental action was taken by shutting down the retailer&#8217;s device.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident in Zahoorabad, the team recovered dozens of national identity cards from a retailer named Tayyab, but no further action was taken despite evident violations of the relevant standard operating procedures (SOPs).<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the retailers involved in malpractices collect CNICs from widows and other deserving women through their agents, withdraw their funds, and charge them Rs1,000 to Rs2,000 per transaction.<\/p>\n<p>There are around 100 sanctioned BISP aid disbursement facilities in Khanewal. However, only three devices have bean activated allegedly due to collusion between franchise owners and officials, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The women are forced to wait in harsh weather conditions without adequate facilities, but no effective action is taken by the authorities.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monitoring team of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has apprehended a retailer for making an illegal deduction of Rs11,000 from the amount granted to a woman. The team immediately deactivated the payment device used by the retail service provider, Waqar. The action was taken amid allegations of corruption in the disbursement of BISP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}