HR Ministry to table proposal to provide free Socso protection for 2 million B40 housewives


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Human Resources Ministry through the Social Security Organisation (Socso) and Women, Family and Community Development Ministry (KWPKM) will propose to the Cabinet to provide free Socso protection for about two million B40 housewives nationwide.

Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan (pic) said following discussions, the ministry saw the need to protect the group who had been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, especially when husbands as the family’s breadwinner, could not go out to work.

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