KUCHING: The unity government should look into providing more targeted assistance to low-income families in urban areas to ease their burden due to the increasing cost of living.
Kota Sentosa assemblyman Wilfred Yap said the government should consider increasing financial assistance to the low-income group and ensure affordable housing, more jobs, better incomes and access to education for them.
He said urgent attention must be given to poor families where their sole breadwinners had lost their jobs or without any stable income, low-income single mothers as well as people living with disabilities (OKU).
“Many of them are facing difficulties to even provide basic needs to their families, thus, the federal government needs to address the issues proactively, including to reduce red tape and ensure various assistances will reach the eligible recipients or targeted groups as soon as possible,” he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, Yap also recently visited a family where their house located at Lorong 18A, Stampin Resettlement Scheme was razed by fire.
The house was rebuilt under the Minor Rural Project-Sarawak Poor Home Improvement Project (MRP-PPRMS).
He said the process was assisted by other volunteers led by Kapitan Voon Boon Min, who is also the chairman of community leaders and village security and development committee (JKKK) of Taman BDC and Satria Jaya.
