Figures and framing per The Official UAE Government Portal (u.ae), drawing on the draft federal budget published by the Ministry of Finance. Allocations and years change from one budget to the next — always confirm the current amount on the authority's website. We don't invent numbers.
How to find and read the social protection budget
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Know who is responsible
Social protection in the UAE sits under the Ministry of Community Empowerment. When you look up the budget, this is the entity whose allocation you are reading. The Official UAE Government Portal (u.ae) states that the table it publishes shows the budget allocated to the Ministry of Community Empowerment as per the draft budget for the relevant years.
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Read it as a multi-year draft budget
The allocation is not a single fixed number — it is published across a span of years as part of the draft budget. The portal presents it as the budget allocated to the Ministry of Community Empowerment for the years from 2020 to 2024, and in another table for the years from 2020 to 2024, as per the draft budget for those years.
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Match each year to its allocation
The federal budget allocated for social protection is listed year by year. For one span the portal shows the federal budget allocated for social protection from 2020 to 2024 Year, with entries of AED 3.229 billion, AED 3.217 billion, AED 3.222 billion, AED 3.217 billion and AED 3.253 billion. Read each amount against the year it belongs to rather than treating any single figure as the whole picture.
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Cross-check against the Ministry of Finance detail
Each table on u.ae links out to the underlying source. The portal invites you to view details of the federal budget from 2015 to 2024 at the Ministry of Finance, and similarly from 2020C to 2020D. Follow that link when you need the authoritative breakdown behind a headline number.
Documents:Draft federal budget - 5
Confirm the current amount before you quote it
Because the allocation is set per draft budget and revised over time, any figure you saw earlier may no longer be current. If you need today's amount for a report, an application or your own planning, check it directly on The Official UAE Government Portal (u.ae) or the Ministry of Finance rather than assuming last year's number still holds.
Fees and timelines may change — verify with the official source.
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