{"id":8444,"date":"2012-01-13T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2012-01-13T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T00:47:32","slug":"application-for-rm500-bantuan-rakyat-1malaysia-extended-to-february-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2012\/01\/13\/application-for-rm500-bantuan-rakyat-1malaysia-extended-to-february-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Application for Rm500 Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia extended to February 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good news to those who missed the application for Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia. The deadline has been extended by another month, to February 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Want to know how to apply, how&#8217;s eligible etc? Refer to my earlier post here: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2011\/12\/12\/apply-rm500-bantuan-rakyat-1malaysia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apply RM500 Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deadline for the public to submit the application form for the RM500 Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) scheme has been extended to Feb 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah\u00a0said the form could be submitted at all Inland Revenue Board (IRB) offices and agencies handling the aid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The one-month extension came following appeals from those who were unable to submit the form by Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The forms had been distributed since last month to assist households earning below RM3,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmad Husni said successful applicants would be given vouchers which they could cash at all Bank Simpanan Nasional,\u00a0CIMB\u00a0and\u00a0Maybank\u00a0branches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe distribution will begin on Sunday and is expected to take two months for completion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring the period, successful applicants will receive letters informing them of the dates and venues of the voucher presentations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe banks will also provide mobile counters for recipients to cash the vouchers which are valid until April 15,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmad Husni said besides the letters, applicants could also check their application status by calling the hotline 1-800-222-500 and 1-300-88-3010 beginning Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hotline will operate between 9am and 5pm on working days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unsuccessful applicants can appeal by filling a special form available all IRB offices and the selected agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The form can also be downloaded from the Finance Ministry&#8217;s website<em>www.treasury.gov.my.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of Tuesday, 3,102,054 applications had been approved from 4,123,713 forms received.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe rest are being processed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2012\/1\/13\/nation\/10255017&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2012\/1\/13\/nation\/10255017&amp;sec=nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news to those who missed the application for Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia. The deadline has been extended by another month, to February 10. Want to know how to apply, how&#8217;s eligible etc? Refer to my earlier post here: \u00a0Apply RM500 Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia The deadline for the public to submit the application form for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,115,84,154],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-1malaysia","tag-economy","tag-funds","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","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=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8445,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}