BR1M 2.0

The Prime Minister announced during the budget 2015 presentation that the rakyat will benefit from the increased revenue collection from GST as the government will increase BR1M payments to the lower income groups.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said for households with a monthly income of RM3,000 and below, the government will hand out RM950 from [...]

A total of 6.8 million applications for the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) 2014 have been approved as at May 31, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan said.

Of the total, he said 4.5 million were households recipients, while the remaining 2.3 million were unmarried recipients, involving a total allocation of RM3.6 billion.

“The number of recipients is [...]

PUTRAJAYA: The next round of Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia is expected to be announced when Budget 2014 is tabled in October.

Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan said BR1M had been a promise in Barisan Nasional’s pledges during the 13th general election.

“There will surely be another BR1M payout,” Ahmad said.

“The Prime Minister will make the announcement,” he [...]

The 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) is a strategic initiative which not only helped people from the lower income group weather the rising cost of living but also stimulated the economy.

“It has never been a waste of money that could bankrupt our country as alleged by the Opposition, “ said Second Minister of Resource Planning and [...]

LAHAD DATU: A group of Pelahus,locally known as Bajau sea gypsies, claimed that they had been swindled of their Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia 2.0 (BR1M or 1 Malaysia People’s Aid) by some ‘middlemen’.

According to a Borneo Insider report yesterday, they were registered last March on the premise that they were to get the RM500 worth of [...]

TELEMARKETER Nurliyana Mohd Suhaimi was smiling from ear to ear when she received her RM250 Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) 2.0 cash aid recently.

The 22-year-old plans to use the aid she received to pay off some of her debts.

“It is not easy to earn a living with the rising cost of prices and though the aid [...]

IPOH: BARISAN Nasional’s Aku Janji (pledge), made during the just-concluded 13th General election, will be incorporated in the drafting of the 2014 Budget.

Top of the list will be the gradual increase of the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) from next year.

Giving his assurance that the national budget will be a budget for the people, Second Finance [...]

RAWANG – Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said today the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) would continue to be given because it was a focused programme which had a major impact on the people.

The prime minister said BR1M reached the target group more than the bulk subsidy which he added also benefit the rich, foreign workers [...]

KUALA LUMPUR — The government’s commitment to ease the burden of the rising cost of living among the low income earners through the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) has been of great significance to the Chinese and Indian community in the country.

A newspaper vendor, T. Subbulekchumi, 55, said the RM500 BR1M had provided her with [...]

GEORGE TOWN: Thousands of recipients of 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M 2.0) who received approval letters dated April 3 are lining up for their vouchers at Menara Boustead in Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah here every day.

The recipients are from the batch that applied for the aid earlier this year.

An officer, who did not wish to be [...]