KUALA LUMPUR: Middle-income households whose members have lost their jobs can appeal for a reassessment of their eligibility for targeted government assistance, said Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong.
"Every aid recipient can submit an appeal if their existing circumstances have changed, and they can do so at any time," he said in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Liew was responding to a supplementary question from Datuk Adnan Abu Hassan (BN-Kuala Pilah), who asked how the government would ensure M40 households facing unemployment or reduced incomes were not excluded from assistance because their previous earnings exceeded eligibility thresholds.
He asked whether the government had a mechanism to reassess affected households' eligibility based on current financial circumstances rather than relying on historical income records.
