"Welfare"

Five million people rushed to register for the second phase of the government’s “Khon La Khrueng” (Let’s Go Halves) subsidised shopping scheme by 8.06am after website registrations opened at 6am on Wednesday.

The Social Development and Human Security Ministry has approved guidelines for providing a monthly Bt600 welfare subsidy to children aged up to six years from fiscal year 2022 onwards.

A local group called on the elderly on Monday to register at a local government organisation for the state allowance by the end of this month.

The Cabinet on Tuesday gave the green light to a new Bt51-billion stimulus package to assist low-income workers hit by the Covid-19 crisis. PM Prayut Chan-o-cha said ministers had agreed to two schemes – “Kon La Khreung” (Let’s Go Halves) and a boost to shopping subsidies for state welfare cardholders.

The Department of Local Administration posted a statement on Facebook saying that monthly welfare payments were made to the elderly and disabled on Thursday (September 17).

The Comptroller-General’s Department will pay monthly social welfare to the elderly and disabled by tomorrow (September 17) from the previously announced September 22, the Pattanalocal Group of Thailand said on its Facebook page yesterday (September 15).

The government has confirmed that it will soon start paying the monthly grant to the elderly and disabled, and will also develop an e-payment system which allows them to receive the money directly.

Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang has reassured elderly and disabled residents that their social welfare recipients this month will not be affected by a budget logjam.

The tenant of a house in Samut Songkhram reportedly disappeared without paying the rent for eight months and left more than 10 dogs tied up inside.

Army chief General Apirat Kongsompong presided over a ceremony to open Seapine Recreation Centre in Prachuap Khiri Khan province after appointing a professional management team to run the hotel on Friday (August 28).

Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit tastes some of the food offered by representatives of People’s Network for Welfare State, who had gathered outside Government House on Monday (July 13) to ask that their proposed “pension for all” be put on the House of Representatives agenda.

Company owners are prohibited from shutting down their business while the emergency decree is in force, while staff are banned from going on strike, a Labour Ministry announcement published in the Royal Gazette website said.