BANGKOK, May 23 (TNA) – The 5,000-baht monthly cash handouts have reached 15 million
poor people and the Finance Ministry will be looking for 1.7 million
others who failed to complete their registration for the financial aid.
Thanakorn
Wangboonkongchana, secretary to Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana,
said the 15 million recipients formed 99% of the people targeted for the
financial aid initiated to cushion the impacts of the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The
rest one percent grouped the applicants whose cases were stalled in the
process of verification. The 240,000 applicants had yet to meet
officials but they could not be contacted partly because they changed
their addresses.
The
Finance Ministry would again send them SMS to inform them of their
rights and they would have to show up at their local branches of
Krungthai Bank to verify their identities and occupations within May 29,
Mr Thanakorn said.
He
added that the Finance Ministry would try to reach the 1.7 million
people who had not completed their application for the financial aid. (TNA)
