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2.6 million worker benefited from wage subsidy programme, says finance minister

Tuesday, 29 Sep 2020 03:34 PM MYT

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 — The total wage subsidy approved to employers under the Wage Subsidy Programme starting April 2020 amounted to RM11.93 billion as at Sept 18, 2020, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz. “Soon will be extended to between three and six months under KitaPrihatin ,” he said when presenting the 23rd Laksana Report here today.

He said the government had received reports that a sum of about RM500,000 in wage subsidy, which should have been paid to workers, had been taken by employers.

 

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