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Govt: Old poverty line used for aid distribution, new benchmark too expensive

PARLIAMENT | A deputy minister has confirmed that welfare aid was deliberately distributed during the Covid-19 pandemic based on an outdated metric for measuring poverty.

This was to lessen the government’s financial burden.

In July 2020, the national monthly poverty line income (PLI) was...

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