A senior citizen of Malaysia was surprised to learn that their benefits in the1Malaysia people’s aid (online BR1M) had been increased a great deal. The People’s 1 Malaysia Aid (BR1M) is a programme that came up as a brainchild of Mr Datuk Seri Najib Razak- the Prime Minister of Malaysia. His popularity, especially among those on the lower ladder in the socioeconomic group increased tenfold. The programme came in 2011 and the first batch of money released in the year 2012. The senior citizen, a seventy two year old, Thien Hin Yuen said he didn’t expect that the increase was going to happen as he had always thought that the promise to increase the funding was just a mere promise.
The aid’s distribution is divided into some four different categories. The first category is entitled to RM650 is a category set aside for households that are earning a cumulative total that’s less than RM300 every month. The second category is the category comprising of individuals who are single, above the age of twenty one and are earning less than RM2000. This category will be entitled to RM300 per person.