Bantuan Prihatin Rakyat’s Phase 1 implementation expedited by three months

KUALA LUMPUR: The government has expedited the implementation of Phase 1 of the Bantuan Prihatin Rakyat (BPR), bringing it forward from May to end of February, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz. He expressed hope that this assistance would benefit more than eight million B40 recipients under Bantuan Prihatin Nasional 2.0 (BPN […]

Govt allocates RM20.7 bln for wage subsidy programme

KUALA LUMPUR: The wage subsidy programme (PSU) announced by the government in 2020 and 2021 amounted to a total of RM20.7 billion. Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said the allocation for the wage subsidy programme so far this year amounted to RM3 billion. “With the expansion of scope to include all […]