The government’s announcement yesterday that two million Malaysian households earn RM3,000 a month in 2014 has left one researcher scratching his head.
This is as this figure is three million households less than the number of households who received the Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia aid in 2012.
According to the government, 5.2 million households – or 80 percent of Malaysian households – earned less than RM3,000 a month and qualified for the BR1M.
"Did 3.2 million households suddenly clear the RM3,000 per month threshold?
"Is it temporary effect of BR1M injections or a more serious statistical error on the part of the government?" PKR think tank Institut Rakyat executive director Yin Shao Loong asked.
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