The Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) plans to reward Saudis who find and keep their jobs, with a 12-month subscription to the organization’s Hafiz unemployment program.

Ibrahim Al-Moaiqel, director general of the HRDF, also known as HADAF, said that the program would offer the incentive as soon as the person finds a job.

The HRDF will pay out the incentive in three installments to ensure the workers hold on to their jobs and achieve certain goals.

Al-Moaiqel said this was one of the country’s strongest quality programs, because workers would also keep their Hafiz accounts until they need it.

This program was launched when officials noticed that 51 percent of the HRDF’s beneficiaries found jobs. A royal decree had stipulated that Hafiz support should be for a period of only 12 months.

Al-Moaiqel said participants would be allowed to register for the new program within 90 days of a resolution issued by the Council of Ministers.

Beneficiaries would be introduced to the program’s aims and regulations, which would be announced in the next few weeks.

The Hafiz program had 1.9 million beneficiaries at the end of 2012, with 80 percent women. A total of 75 percent live in main cities and 20 percent have university degrees.

Over 1.5 million have benefited from training programs. The HRDF has removed 137,000 Saudis from its program who were not serious about finding jobs. The public sector employed 22,089 Saudis, while the private sector employed over 200,000.