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The Finance and Budget Committee approved the budget plans for the defense, labor and social affairs ministries, committee head Ibrahim Kanaan wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. The committee also discussed different ways the government can finance the ration card, in case it faces funding delays from the World Bank, Kanaan added.

We focused on the issue of funding for the National Social Security Fund, so it can properly pay for hospitalization for the Lebanese,” Kanaan tweeted.Kanaan continued that the committee discussed the army’s budget, and reiterated its concerns over soldiers’ access to “nutrition, medicine, medical care, and maintenance for the military, and asked to amend it [the budget] for approval in the next session.”