THE Economic Planning Unit (EPU) must revise the guidelines defining poverty and hardcore poverty to better reflect current realities, said a first-term backbencher.
Chua Tee Yong (BN Labis) said the guidelines in 2004 defined a four-member household earning less than RM800 monthly as poor and those earning less than RM400 monthly as hardcore poor.
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