Over 3,600 families in Melaka now under hardcore poor category, says CM

MELAKA: A total of 3,633 households in the state are now under the hardcore poor category according to an official data, says Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Sulaiman Md Ali.

He said the number of hardcore poor households in the state had increased after the Federal Government revised its national poor household income average used to measure poverty known as the Poverty Line Income (PLI) from RM980 to RM2,208 in July 2020.