‘Vital to ensure no one slips through the cracks’


PETALING JAYA: Putrajaya must find ways to ensure deserving aid recipients do not slip through the cracks under the Padu system, say economic experts.

There must be ways to catch “errors of omissions” and “errors of inclusion”, where there will be some who are qualified but excluded – whereas there will be those who are not qualified but they are mistakenly included, said economist Datuk Dr Madeline Berma of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

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