{"id":172644,"date":"2023-02-26T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=172644"},"modified":"2023-02-26T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T11:46:59","slug":"budget-2023-youths-to-receive-rm200-ewallet-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=172644","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2023: Youths to receive RM200 eWallet credits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Sarah Nur Safiyyah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 26 February 2023: In an effort of cashless transactions, the government through the ePemula programme will credit a one-off payment of RM200 into the qualified e-wallet accounts of youths aged between 18 and 20.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As tabled in the Budget 2023 on Friday (24 February), Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that RM400 million has been allocated to the ePemula programme to benefit approximately two million youths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In support of a more sympathetic economy, Malaysian government planned to adopt an inclusive strategy that recognised the crucial role of youth in economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anwar noted that due to the change in government, the RM200 ePemula and eWallet programme introduced last year is now known as eTunai Belia Rahmah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, full-time students aged 21 years old or older who were previously in the e-Pemula and eWallet programme for youths will not be included in the eTunai Belia Rahmah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153It has been determined that it is entirely reasonable to believe that the eTunai Belia Rahmah is a rebranded programme to go with the other Payung Rahmah efforts by the current administration, such as the cost-effective Menu Rahmah,\u009d Anwar added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budget 2023 themed \u0153Developing Malaysian <em>Madani<\/em>\u009d is anchored on the six core values namely the countrys sustainability, prosperity, innovation, respect, and finally, care and compassion. ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Nur Safiyyah KUALA LUMPUR, 26 February 2023: In an effort of cashless transactions, the government through the ePemula programme will credit a one-off&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20852,"featured_media":172645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[91,469,20852],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-846.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172664,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172644\/revisions\/172664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}