In order to improve the living standards and provide a decent life to citizens and residents of the UAE, the UAE Government allocates a share of its budget towards social protection programmes, projects and initiatives. The table below shows the budget allocated to Ministry of Community Development, the entity responsible for the social protection sector, for the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 as per the draft budget for those years.

 The federal budget allocated for social protection from 2016 to 2020

Review details of the federal budgets from 2011 to 2021- Ministry of Finance.