The government will allow Kenyans in the informal sector to set daily mobile money deductions to cater to their Social Health Authority (SHA) contributions, according to Senior Advisor in the Council of Economic Advisors to the President, Moses Kuria.
Kuria, on Wednesday, April 2, while in Nandi County for the launch of Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and the Boda Boda Incentive Programme for Mass Registration of Taifa Care, revealed the government's plans to debut the new way of making payments to go towards health coverage Under the Social Health Insurance Act of 2023, there is a mandatory Ksh500 contribution to the Social Health Authority for all adult Kenyans.
However, the law also sets the means testing scheme to determine how much Kenyans in the informal sector should pay.
According to Kuria, the new plan is to allow a section of Kenyans registered under the new scheme who have not been making contributions to begin doing so.
