Al-Mansouri Announces Good News for Moroccans: Increases in Pensions for Retirees and Widows, and Social Assistance!

Al-Mansouri Brings Good News to Moroccans: Pension and Subsidy Increases, and Criminalization of Illicit Enrichment!

Moroccan Prime Minister Fatima Al-Zahra Al-Mansouri, while presenting the government’s program (2026–2031) to Parliament, announced a promising package of measures to strengthen governance and support purchasing power; These included a commitment to criminalize illicit enrichment and punish conflicts of interest, as well as launching structural reforms to regulate markets and combat monopolies and opportunistic intermediation in coordination with the Competition Council. To curb inflation and expand the welfare state, the government pledged to require contractors awarded public contracts to allocate 30% of the contract value to small and medium-sized enterprises, while also introducing an automatic social subsidy covering electricity bills not exceeding 100 dirhams per month for the primary residence, and launching a gradual reform of the income tax system to increase workers’ wages.

On the social, health, and development fronts, Al-Mansouri announced a gradual increase in direct social assistance to reach 1,000 dirhams by the end of the term, raising the minimum pension to 3,000 dirhams per month, and providing widows with a 100% full pension. The program also includes the launch of a comprehensive plan to address youth unemployment, aimed at training and qualifying 100,000 young people annually, and renovating or building 100,000 rural homes with direct support of 40,000 dirhams per family. In the area of services and governance, the government committed to addressing regional disparities in healthcare provision and expanding access to emergency medical care, continuing to implement reforms to the Family Code and promote equality, and establishing a special fund to formalize the status of Amazigh with a budget of 2 billion dirhams under the supervision of a permanent ministerial committee.