One of the major activities of the programme is to facilitate the transfer of NGN 5,000 per month to beneficiaries, which is paid on bi-monthly bases (every two months). The payment is given to all eligible households selected from the National Social Register (NSR). The second type of transfer known as Top-Up (additional five thousand also given bi-monthly) is given to a subset of the recipients of the Base transfer, upon fulfilling certain conditions.
