{"id":3614,"date":"2009-02-27T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2009-02-27T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T05:53:20","slug":"welfare-eligibility-to-be-widened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/02\/27\/welfare-eligibility-to-be-widened\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare eligibility to be widened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its surely a good news for many of the poor folks, single parents, elderly people and so on who can hope to get more benefits. The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/2\/27\/nation\/3359919&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">raising the eligible monthly income<\/a> from RM400 to RM720.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-six thousand hardcore poor are expected to fall within the social and welfare net in addition to the existing 54,000 people already identified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The obvious questions of how the recipients are being identified and elements of corruption\/discrimination aside, what can our NGO&#8217;s do to help the ministry? I remember reading earlier that the Ministry and specially the Welfare Dept is lacking manpower. They need to depend on village heads, JKKK, local politicians, and NGOs. How is the information being flowed to the rakyat? Other than using MIC channels, the Ministry should include NGOs like spiritual organisations, and temple associations as well. Not sure if they are doing so.<\/p>\n<p>In one way, its a good move since more people can enjoy cash inflow. On the other hand, this may encourage dependency on handouts.\u00a0 The long term plan of providing a job and way out of poverty must not be neglected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its surely a good news for many of the poor folks, single parents, elderly people and so on who can hope to get more benefits. The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry is raising the eligible monthly income from RM400 to RM720. Fifty-six thousand hardcore poor are expected to fall within the social and welfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}