9,000 taska, tabika helpers gain from RM500 pay raise


Thankful lot: Ahmad Kamal (centre) posing for a group photo after the appreciation ceremony of the Johor Kemas staff in Kota Iskandar, Iskandar Puteri.

ISKANDAR PUTERI: The government’s decision to raise the monthly allowance of volunteer community assistants (PPMS) by RM300, which will benefit over 9,000 of these volunteers, is timely, says Community Development Department (Kemas) director-general Ahmad Kamal Idris Mohd Nawawi.

The volunteers previously received RM400 monthly back in 2011 before the amount rose to RM500 per month in 2017, he added.

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