KUALA LUMPUR: The government has channelled RM20.147bil to 357,429 employers through its wage subsidy programme (PSU) that has helped to keep 2,951,854 jobs in an effort to reduce unemployment rate.
Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz (pic) said that for PSU 1.0, 322,177 employers and 2.64 million workers had received benefits under the Prihatin Economic Stimulus Package and the Short-Term Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana), whereby wage subsidy applications reached RM12.956bil.
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