Civil servants spend more than half of salaries on repaying debts


THE high debt levels of Malaysia’s civil servants are nothing surprising.

In the Central Bank’s Financial Stability Review released last September, findings showed that civil servants spent more than half of their monthly salaries on repaying debts.

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