"Welfare card"

The Finance Ministry is ready for cash injection to assist state welfare card holders and minor operators under the “Kon La Krueng” co-payment scheme.

A total of 39.76 million Thais have registered for economic stimulus schemes in 2022, spending around 45 billion baht, according to the Finance Ministry.

The Cabinet on Monday approved phase four of the government’s “Khon La Khrueng” (Let’s Go Halves) subsidy scheme with a budget of 34.8 billion baht.

Holders of state welfare cards who have not received financial aid through any of the other government campaigns will be automatically eligible for a Bt3,000 handout, director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office, Lavaron Sangsnit, said.

Holders of state welfare cards will continue being entitled to additional benefits announced since the outbreak of Covid-19, the Government Public Relations Department said.

The government has no plan to gift Bt3,000 to each state welfare card holder to mark the Buddhist Lent that will start on July 17, a government official clarified.

THE FUNDS in the government’s welfare card held by 14.5 million poor people could turn into cash for three months, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday.

An ailing Nakhon Ratchasima woman who lives on handouts from her neighbours says she has twice been turned down for a state welfare card.

Thais have taken to social media slamming an apparently wealthy woman who boasted about using a Thai welfare card intended for the poor.