Fewer hardcore poor households in Wangsa Maju


Zahir (centre) presenting a food basket to a recipient during the ceremony in Taman Melati. — FARID WAHAB/The Star

ABOUT 70 households in Kuala Lumpur’s Wangsa Maju parliamentary constituency are in the hardcore poor category as they earn less than RM1,169 a month.

Its MP Zahir Hassan said this figure was obtained after an update in the eKasih database in July.

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