Getting by, but just barely


I AM a teacher in a government secondary school in Seremban. Like the over 1.7 million civil servants in Malaysia, news that Budget 2021 may not see smooth passage in the Dewan Rakyat is deeply worrying for me.

Although it’s true that we civil servants did not suffer a pay cut or were retrenched during this economically challenging time, our plight is no less troubling.

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