CORONAVIRUS | The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) has suggested that the special allowance for Covid-19 frontliners be paid together with their monthly salaries.

Its president Adnan Mat said it was aimed to simplify the payment method without having them fill out the same form each month and in the process, reducing bureaucracy.

"Cuepacs has received numerous complaints on the bureaucratic requirement and the setting of conditions which is seen as complicating the frontliners to make the claim.

"The allowance for the frontliners is a great morale booster for them. We should not dampen the spirit with bureaucracy,” he said in a statement today.

On March 27, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced an increase from RM400 to RM600 of the special monthly allowance to frontliners comprising doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, who are directly involved in managing and containing the Covid-19 infection in the country.

The government is to also pay a monthly special allowance of RM200 to the military, police, customs, immigration, Civil Defence Force and RELA personnel involved in enforcing the movement control order (MCO).

Their allowance will be paid from April 1 till the end of the pandemic.

- Bernama

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