The great EPF dividend debate


FINANCE Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan took to LinkedIn recently to defend the Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) dividend for 2025, saying critics had “missed the point entirely”.

It looked like a response to former finance minister Lim Guan Eng, who linked the lower dividend to a so-called “two-tier economy”, where Malaysia’s economic growth gains do not flow evenly across society.

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