Data for distributing money to the poor is held in the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. It is electronic and not in a file. Payment records in the Office of the Accountant are on the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System. It is backed up remotely.

You must load bank account numbers into GIFMIS before you can be paid any money from government. If the account number is wrong, the system will reject it. Payment instructions from GIFMIS go direct to banks. GIFMIS is backed up. Banks have records of who was paid.