{"id":11810,"date":"2021-09-30T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:47:48","slug":"pension-raise-for-b40-group-among-focus-in-dewan-rakyat-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"Pension raise for B40 group among focus in Dewan Rakyat Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 30 Sept &#8211;The increase in pension payment&nbsp;for the B40 group is one of the questions scheduled to be raised at the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Order Paper of the Dewan Rakyat,&nbsp;&nbsp;the question will be raised by P. Kasthuriraani (PH-Batu Kawan) to the Prime Minister during the Ministers\u2019 Question Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wants to know whether the government will increase the pension payment&nbsp;for the group in line with the high living cost and the huge number of people who lost their income during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be a question from Datuk Ahmad Nazlan Idris (BN-Jerantut) to the Senior Minister of Works on the challenges facing the construction sector due to COVID-19 and the assistance extended by the government to those who were affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png\" alt=\"pension\" class=\"wp-image-10086\" width=\"513\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png 579w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32-183x100.png 183w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32-350x191.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Oral Question and Answer session, Rubiah Wang (GPS-Kota Samarahan) is scheduled to pose a question to the Prime Minister on the Special Cabinet Committee on the 1963 Malaysia Agreement, as well as the government&#8217;s action plan in restoring the rights of Sabah and Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be a question by Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan (BN-Pontian) on the preparation by the\u00a0Science, Technology, and Innovation Ministry for the country to produce its own\u00a0vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sitting will then be continued with the debate on the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, 29 Members of Parliament (MPs) took part in the debate on the 12MP which was tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob last&nbsp;Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current Dewan Rakyat sitting will be for 17 days until Oct 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2008633\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 30 Sept &#8211;The increase in pension payment&nbsp;for the B40 group is one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32-300x164.png",300,164,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-13.04.32.png",579,316,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}