Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1088

Married Kuwaiti physicians have the choice between obtaining furnished government housing supplied with electricity and water and obtaining a housing allowance. The granting of the allowance is prohibited for certain categories, including those for whom two years have elapsed since obtaining a plot and a loan, or a loan only. An example. - Granting loans to eligible persons to build dwellings, purchase them, or increase their use. Among the housing welfare alternatives specified by the legislature. Fulfilment of the purpose for which the beneficiary obtained the loan. Its meaning: his having benefited from housing welfare for himself and his family. He may not renew a request to benefit from any other housing welfare alternative. - Housing allowance. It is paid in lieu of providing housing welfare through one of its alternatives. - Housing welfare. The condition for the wife to benefit from it. That both spouses benefit from it together. The reason for this.