Matching grants to prevent excessive withdrawal of EPF funds


RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star

Despite 2020 being a bad year in terms of the pandemic and economic downturn, on Feb 27, 2021, Malaysian retirement savings fund, the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), declared a dividend of 5.2% for conventional savings and 4.9% for syariah savings for 2020, amounting to a total payout of RM47.64bil.

This could be the main reason why EPF had earlier announced its readiness to allow an unconditional withdrawal of funds by those who are most affected by the economic downturn brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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