PETALING JAYA: The government has paid out RM5.2bil to 7.6 million Malaysians who are qualified to receive the Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) cash aid as of April 19, says Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz.
He said this included 400,000 B40 or lower-income group recipients without bank accounts and 1.2 million recipients from the M40 or middle-income group.
He also said that the government would look into the issue of those without bank accounts and those left out of the system by looking into digital solutions in the banking system in the long-term. He said the e-hailing incentive of RM500 per driver to 90,000 recipients had started to be credited into their bank accounts from April 20.
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