Cabinet tackles issue of elder allowances

Praphorn Praphornkul

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Cabinet has decided to halt demands for repayment resulting from excess elder allowance payouts, and has cancelled legal action taken against numerous senior citizens, while instructing the agencies responsible to implement measures to avoid a repeat of the problem.

 

Deputy spokesperson of the Prime Minister’s Office, Rachada Thanadirek said today that the Cabinet has accepted a recommendation from the the National Elders Committee to delay a call for repayments from senior citizens who received elderly benefits they were not entitled to, and has given an assurance to those affected that no legal action will be taken against them.

 

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has been told to coordinate with local administrative organizations to find remedial measures for those impacted by the issue in compliance with applicable laws, and to implement measures to avoid a repeat of the situation.

 

The Cabinet also approved a proposal to increase student lunch allowances in 2022 and for the Council of State to review three related laws.

 

Prime Minister’s Office Spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri announced that student lunch allowances will be increased to 21 baht per student per day in fiscal 2022, with 25.436 billion baht to be allotted to support the scheme.

 

The total will be divided between local administrative organizations, the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Education and private schools, with 823 million baht to go to local administrations and 32 million to private schools.

 

The National Education Act, Lifelong Learning Act and the law for citizen registration are to be reviewed by the Council of State in support of the decision.

 

 

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21 baht a day for a students lunch, by the time the "supervisors" have taken their cuts the student will be lucky to get a bit of rice with a few bits of vegetables plus some fish sauce and this is after they upped the amount per day.

8 hours ago, seajae said:

21 baht a day for a students lunch, by the time the "supervisors" have taken their cuts the student will be lucky to get a bit of rice with a few bits of vegetables plus some fish sauce and this is after they upped the amount per day.

You'd be surprised!

Buying in large quantities 21 Baht for one meal can be done very easily.

How do you think that places that sell meals individually for 30 Baht turn any sort of profit?

How do you think that single income families with less than 300 Baht a day manage to eat?

I remember a story from another country, some time ago, where they kept their deceased granny in the freezer, so that the relatives could keep collecting the pension...