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Payments will be delivered to 500,000 families, with each member receiving $20 per person up to six people, according to Minister of Tourism and Social Affairs Ramzi Moucharafieh. The average payment per family has been estimated at $93. The payments will begin prior to the government ending subsidies on fuel and some medicines, which is expected to increase prices of most products.

Impoverished Lebanese families to receive cash starting in October Lebanon's new government said Thursday it will provide U.S. dollar payments to hundreds of thousands of poor families, beginning in October

Reeling from a two-year financial collapse, Lebanon, with a population of 6 million, lacks supplies of fuel oil and gasoline, causing extensive blackouts and long lines at the few operating gas stations. "Vital facilities, such as hospitals and health centres, have lacked access to safe water due to electricity shortages, putting lives at risk," said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director.

Lebanon water shortage imminent, says UN UNICEF has warned that more than 4 million people in Lebanon could face critical water shortages in the coming days due to the ongoing fuel crisis