PETALING JAYA: The average lower-income household has only a shocking RM76 a month to spare, after household expenses are deducted.
Describing the situation as “worrying”, a Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) study showed the real residual household income for households earning less than RM2,000 is a meagre RM76 a month in 2016.
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