Article 9 of the Saudi Housing Support Regulation
المادة 9 من تنظيم الدعم السكني · الفصل الثاني: الاستفادة من الدعم السكني
The article allows a family member who meets the conditions to submit a new application taking the precedence of the applicant's application, if the applicant dies before housing support is allocated.
Official text (Arabic)
This article has not been amended since the law was issued.
إذا توفي المتقدم قبل تخصيص دعم سكني، جاز لمن تنطبق عليه الشروط المبينة في هذا التنظيم من أفراد أسرته أن يتقدم بطلب جديد يأخذ أسبقية طلب المتوفى.
This is the official Arabic wording, the only legally binding version. We do not translate the law itself; the explanation below is ours. Official source: Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers
Article 9 explained in plain English
This article deals with the case of the applicant dying before housing support is allocated to him. Instead of the family starting from scratch, the article permits one of its members to submit a new application that takes the precedence of the deceased's application.
This provision has clear conditions and limits in the text:
- The death must be before the allocation of the housing support, as the text does not deal with death after allocation.
- The person submitting the new application must be a member of the deceased's family.
- He must meet the conditions set out in the Regulation, so merely being a family member is not enough.
The practical benefit to the family is keeping the precedence of the deceased's application, so it does not lose the time the original application waited. This provision is linked to Article 8, which does not count the period of an application's suspension in calculating priority under the criterion of the order of submission, which shows the importance of precedence in ranking applicants. The article is worded as a permission («may»), meaning it is a right of the family member that he chooses whether to use, and it is exercised by a new application and not by simply continuing the old one.
Practical example
Saad submitted a housing support application for his family in Dammam and then died before allocation. His wife, if she meets the conditions, may submit a new application that takes the precedence of her husband's application.
Translated from our Arabic explanation with machine assistance. For guidance only; it does not replace advice from a lawyer on your situation.
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Frequently asked questions about Article 9 of the Saudi Housing Support Regulation
What happens to a housing support application if the applicant dies?
A member of his family who meets the conditions may submit a new application that takes the precedence of the deceased's application, if the death was before allocation.
Does the application pass automatically to the wife?
The text speaks of a new application by a family member who meets the conditions, not an automatic transfer.
More articles on Housing Support Conditions and Application Procedures
- Article 5
The article specifies who may apply for housing support for the family: the husband or father, the wife, a divorced or widowed mother, and siblings jointly.
يقدم الزوج أو الأب طلب الحصول على دعم سكني للأسرة. وتقدمه الزوجه، أو الأم إذا كانت مطلقة ومضى على طلاقها مدة تحددها اللائحة، أو الأم متى كان زوجها متوفى. ويقدم
- Article 7
The article requires the applicant to submit the application in the way the Ministry sets and give it all the information and documents it requests, and allows it to coordinate with bodies to verify and update them.
يقدم طلب الدعم السكني بالطريقة التي تحددها الوزارة، ويلتزم المتقدم بتزويد الوزارة بجميع المعلومات والمستندات التي تطلبها، وللوزارة التنسيق مع الجهات الحكومية وا
- Article 8
The article suspends housing support application procedures if the applicant's or family's circumstances change so that the requirements of Article 4, 5 or 6 are no longer met, and allows reactivation once the cause ends.
توقف إجراءات طلب الدعم السكني إذا تغير حال المتقدم أو الأسرة (أو أحد أفرادها) بعد تاريخ تقديم الطلب، بحيث لم تعد تتوافر في الطلب متطلبات أي من المواد (الرابعة)
- Article 10
The article requires the applicant at all times to notify the Ministry of any change within 15 days, and to provide the information and documents it requests within 10 days unless it sets a longer period.
يلتزم المتقدم في كل الأوقات بما يأتي: 1 - إشعار الوزارة بأي تغيير يطرأ على المعلومات التي قدمها أو أي تغيير على وضعه قد يؤثر على توافر الشروط المبينة في هذا الت
The texts are reproduced from the official website of the Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers for reference; where they differ, the officially published Arabic text prevails. This content is not legal advice.