Egypt Sets New Criteria to Exclude Luxury Car Owners from Subsidy System

The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade in Egypt is preparing to implement new criteria aimed at excluding ineligible citizens from the commodity subsidy system.

According to informed sources within the ministry, the new exclusion criteria will directly target any citizen owning a luxury car valued above one million Egyptian pounds.

The ministry has already begun coordinating and relying on updated national databases to identify owners of luxury and recent-model vehicles. This initiative is part of a broader government strategy to rationalize subsidies directed at the current 68 million beneficiaries.

The sources emphasized that the process of refining beneficiary lists is conducted regularly to ensure subsidy funds reach the actual eligible recipients without affecting the most needy and priority groups.

In a related development, the Egyptian government has decided to maintain the current in-kind subsidy system, which provides goods and bread, without changes for the time being. The implementation of a cash subsidy system has been postponed for several upcoming weeks until all technical and logistical arrangements for the transition are completed.

Official data released by the government indicate that the current in-kind subsidy system covers approximately 68 million citizens registered on ration cards across various Egyptian governorates.