BANGKOK, April 15 (TNA) – Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha set up a committee to regulate aid providing processes for people who lost their income amid the Covid-19 outbreak and appointed Permanent Secretary for Finance to chair the committee.
Newly- appointed chairman, Prasong Poontanate will be responsible for ensuring relief measures, including the 5,000-baht financial aid reach people in need.
The cash handout is offered by the government to ease the impacts on employees, temporary workers, or self-employed people and laid-off workers who are not members of the Social Security Fund and other occupations affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Permanent Secretaries of related nine ministries and a representative of the Royal Thai Police were appointed as members of the committee. The Director of the Fiscal Policy Office was chosen as the Secretary-General.
The committee is tasked with screening and checking applicants’ information as well as analyzing and designing concrete, effective and fair assistance. Its proposal will be forwarded to the prime minister.
Gen Prayut’s decision to set up the committee to regulate aid providing processes came after dozens of people whose application for the cash handout was turned down had gathered at the Finance Ministry yesterday.
They insisted they were qualified and demanded explanation from the authority.
Permanent Secretary for Finance met them and told them to appeal at the website next week. (TNA)
