Finance Ministry staff told to help solve complaints over Bt5,000 handouts

By The Nation

 

Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana

 

The Finance Ministry has instructed staff to be responsive towards citizens who complain about not receiving the government’s Bt5,000 remedial cash handouts, Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana, secretary to the Finance Minister, said on Wednesday (April 29).

 

The Finance Ministry building in Bangkok has been the scene of daily protests by people whose applications for the relief handouts were rejected.

 

Thanakorn explained that of the total 22.3 million people who had applied for the monthly payments, 6.25 million had been turned down because they were eligible to receive government aid via other measures.

 

“Of those 6.25 million people, 4.2 million are eligible for farmers’ handouts, 1.1 million are civil servants and insurers who can receive compensation from the Social Security Office, and 950,000 have withdrawn their applications,” he explained.

 

“Therefore, only 16.05 million people are eligible, of whom 10.6 million have been approved [for the Bt5,000 payments].”

 

He added that the ministry will deliver payments to all 10.6 million successful applicants by the end of next week.

 

“However, we instructed staff to take care of people who file complaints at the ministry,” he added. “Meanwhile, we would like to ask people whose applications were turned down to appeal via the online channel only.”

 

Replying to Pheu Thai Secretary-General Anudith Nakornthap’s proposal that Bt10,000 should be handed out to each of the 27 million people who have applied for the payments, Thanakorn said that figure represented only the number of applications submitted, many of which were repeat applications.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387005

 

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• photo of that smug <deleted> suggests his bank account got bigger after the 5000 not-really-handout program started

If they set up a committee and appointed a couple of sub-committees then I am sure they could quickly solve these problems ...

Next Scenario: So if Uttama doesn't perform then his days will be numbered ordered by P Antoinette! 

Their 'response' so far has been 'Go Away'.    Somehow i don't think there will be any change !

Maybe next time don't go round making false promises to millions of people. 

 

There's a great scene in the British TV show 'The office' where David Brent (the regional manager of a paper company) is asked who he will be making redundant. He tells his boss he hates redundancy and that he told all his staff that their jobs were safe (he wanted to look like the good guy). His boss asks him why on earth did he tell the staff their jobs would be safe when there would be redundancies - his answer? "Ah, they won't remember".

 

This sentiment reminds me exactly of the same insincere and feckless leadership here. Just people who wanna be in charge and want the glory but take zero responsibility. Their contempt for the poor is showing more and more. 

 

 

13 hours ago, YetAnother said:

• photo of that smug <deleted> suggests his bank account got bigger after the 5000 not-really-handout program started

One would have to wonder the number of "ghosts" that surface when these free money handouts get going....must be thousands!

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“Therefore, only 16.05 million people are eligible, of whom 10.6 million have been approved [for the Bt5,000 payments].”

So 6 million are still waiting for approval?

19 hours ago, YetAnother said:

• photo of that smug <deleted> suggests his bank account got bigger after the 5000 not-really-handout program started

Yes , quite amazing how many Thai officials have a smug face that you just wanna slap

That bloke looks like he's had a couple of beers, hmmmmmm......????