MIRI: For members of the Northern Sarawak Journalists Association (NSJA) who have yet to use or redeem their health screening allowance worth RM200, president Andy Jong Wan Joon has reminded them to do so before Dec 31.
The allowance was first introduced in 2016 with a maximum payment of RM100 over every two-year period but was later increased to RM200 a year since 2019.
In 2021, the health screening test coverage was expanded and included the Covid-19 swab test.
Previously , the coverage for health screening member allowance was limited to medical health check-ups and vaccination (hepatitis A /B and other vaccines).
Members only need to produce the health screening official receipt to NSJA to claim the allowance of up to RM200 each in a single receipt.
“The receipt or invoice can be claimed from Jan 1 until Dec 31 this year,” Jong said.
He also thanked Sarawak Minister for Transport, Datuk Sri Lee Kim Shin for contributing RM10,000 to the health screening allowance this year as the latter had done since 2018.
Formed in 1974, NSJA has more than 90 members consisting of practitioners from the print media representing the Malay, English and Chinese language newspapers as well the electronic media stationed in Miri.
