Govt to give insurance protection to poor households without breadwinners: PM

KUALA LUMPUR – The government will provide an insurance protection plan for poor households that have lost their sources of income due to the death of their heads of 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 meeting at the Parliament building here today.

Ismail Sabri said the meeting also agreed that the socio-economic level of Keluarga Malaysia be increased with added value, focusing on programmes to increase the incomes of poor and hardcore poor heads of household registered in eKasih.

He said it also agreed to strengthen the social protection agenda up to the administrative district level through the State Social Protection Technical Committee to coordinate the Programme Mapping and Social Protection Profile Phase Two. – Bernama, March 23, 2022