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Needy to get first B10,000 handouts from Sept 25
Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 13/09/2024
» The government will begin offering stimulus handouts to 14.5 million needy people starting from Sept 25, which is expected to help lift economic growth to 3% this year, according to the Ministry of Finance.
How Thailand's welfare state could change
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 28/06/2023
» For the past few decades, many countries have been working towards providing "healthcare for all", including equity in access to healthcare and healthcare financing.
State banks to offer free meals to needy
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 27/06/2020
» The Ministry of Finance is planning to fund meal handouts at state banks to help people across the kingdom impacted by Covid-19.
Family income joins new welfare criteria
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 23/12/2019
» Recipients of state welfare benefits in the new round of registration early next year must include the incomes of their family members, and the average annual income for the family cannot exceed 100,000 baht per person.
Phase 2 of tour scheme ups game
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 19/10/2019
» The second phase of perks for spending outside home provinces under the Taste-Shop-Spend scheme will offer cash back of up to 20% of spending worth up to 50,000 baht, with the number of recipients capped at 2 million.
B100bn-plus sought for rural stimulus
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/09/2019
» The Finance Ministry estimates that more than 100 billion baht is needed to fund a strategy of sustainable development for the rural economy to thoroughly cover 30 million poor people in the segment.
Updated criteria aimed at thinning welfare rolls
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/06/2019
» The family-based qualification criteria for welfare smartcard holders will be replaced by an individual income benchmark, with the aim of lowering the number of recipients to less than 10 million.
Rich elderly pressed to forgo allowance
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 10/04/2019
» The Finance Ministry aims for 10,000 wealthy elderly to forgo their old-age living allowance this year and let the proceeds be redirected to the needy to provide a better living standard.
FPO mulls calculation for welfare
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 09/03/2019
» The Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) is studying whether the budgets for fiscal 2019 and 2020 are sufficient to finance the welfare policies promised by political campaigns.
Fresh appeal to elderly generosity
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/02/2019
» The Finance Ministry is still hoping that tens of thousands of wealthy elderly will forgo their old-age living allowances so the proceeds can be redirected to the needy after the ministry joined banks to facilitate donation of the allowances.