The distribution of financial aid for livelihood, industry, food and transportation (LIFT) under the United Package for Livelihood, Industry, Food and Transport (UPLIFT) program has officially opened at the Department of Social Welfare and Development Cordillera Administrative Region (DSWD-CAR) as part of national initiatives to reduce the direct economic burden on households. More than 53,000 qualified households will be given …

The government through the Ministry of Manpower will provide subsidies to private employees who have registered with the Social Security Administration Body for Employment or BPJS Ketenagakerjaan (BP Jamsostek) starting next September 2020. As informed, the government will run a salary subsidy program for private employees with wages below IDR 5 million per month. The scheme, a salary subsidy of …

The Cabinet has approved four projects to help people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have not received assistance from the government in the past three months. The first project is to pay 1,000 baht to 1,164,222 welfare cardholders for three months, from May to July. A total of 3.49 billion baht is allocated to this project. The second …

As Malaysia is faces coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), struggling to protect people’s health and livelihoods at 40 per cent of household revenue. It reported three bundles of economic assistance. The new two are named Prihatin (which translates into “care”), and they concentrate on helping the Malaysians who fear slipping through the cracks. This include street sellers, micro-enterpreneurs, artists and other informal …

Cash assistance in Riau Province Social assistance will be provided to families that affected by outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, or COVID-19 in some regions. The Riau provincial government will provide Rp600 thousand in social assistance to each of around 250 thousand families in the province. “Cash assistance of Rp600 thousand will be given to each family for three …

The city’s underprivileged residents will receive staple foodstuffs or ‘sembako’ that distributed by the Jakarta administration. This step taken by the Jakarta administration to help them that are financially-affected by the regulations concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The distribution of staple foodstuffs will be completed before the city’s large-scale social restriction (PSBB) protocol is imposed on Friday. “The Jakarta administration …