Hoping budget will help various groups of people

KUCHING: Minister in Chief Minister’s Department (Integrity and Ombudsman), Datuk Talib Zulpilip hopes Budget 2021 will help the business community, who are hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, through the extension of loan moratorium, tax relief and assistance with wages. He also hopes the elderly and pensioners will be taken care of through the extension […]

Special Raya aid for civil servants, pensioners

KUALA LUMPUR: The government has agreed to give a special Aidilfitri assistance of RM500 to civil servants on Grade 56 and below. Public Service Department director-general Datuk Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman, in a circular, said the payment would be made on May 20, and pensioners would also receive aid of RM250. Based on the circular, the […]

Punish them but don’t touch pension: Masing

KUCHING: Civil servants or pensioners who flout the movement control order (MCO) should not be deprived of their pension, said Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri James Jemut Masing. Masing said this in response to Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) statement which said that various privileges enjoyed by civil […]