\u201cSo if additional withdrawals\u00a0are\u00a0allowed, this will result in more members to retire below the PGK poverty line causing the Malaysian family to bear a huge burden in the future,\u00a0especially if a\u00a0recession occurs,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he told reporters after visiting the Kelantan Urban Transformation Centre\u00a0(UTC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said this when asked to comment on a study by UMNO Youth which found that more than 97 percent of members want the government to approve the one-off withdrawal of EPF i-Citra savings of RM10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commenting further, Tengku Zafrul said every decision made by the government must take into account the interests of the people in the short-and long-term periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also assured that the government will continue to protect the welfare of the people, including the B40 and M40 groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUnder the 2022 Budget, more than RM31 billion is earmarked for subsidies, assistance, and incentives to reduce the impact of the rising cost of living.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo\u00a0ensure\u00a0the welfare\u00a0of the people is\u00a0taken care\u00a0of, (under)\u00a0Bantuan Keluarga Malaysia (BKM), the government has allocated\u00a0RM8.2 billion to be distributed to\u00a09.6 million recipients. This is among the various assistance provided to the people,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KOTA BHARU, Jan 15 — More Employees Provident Fund (EPF) members will retire below the Income Poverty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png",590,318,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025","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=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13027,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions\/13027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"withdrawals\"](\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-15-at-16.52.35.png\")
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