Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (centre) signs a plaque during the launch of the Social Protection Database at the Parliament building in Kuala Lumpur March 23, 2022. — Bernama pic
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The government will provide an insurance protection plan for poor households who have lost their source of income due to the death of the head of the household with an allocation of RM13.4 million a year.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said it would involve about 268,000 poor families registered in eKasih.
“Each household will receive RM10,000 with an allocation of RM13.4 million a year,” he said in a statement issued after chairing the Malaysia Social Protection Council (MySPC) meeting at the Parliament building here today.
Ismail Sabri said the meeting also agreed that the socio-economic level of Malaysian Family be increased by giving added value and focusing on the programmes to increase the income of the heads of households (KIR) of the poor and hardcore poor registered in eKasih.
He said the other thing that was agreed upon was to strengthen the social protection agenda up to the administrative district level through the State Social Protection Technical Committee (JTPSNg) to coordinate the Programme Mapping and Social Protection Profile Phase Two. — Bernama