PUTRAJAYA: The Finance Ministry has disbursed one third of the RM5.6 billion total payout for the 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) in the first phase of the payment.
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan said 7.2 million applications were approved for this year with the first phase expected to be completed this month while the second phase will commence on May 28 followed by the third phase in Sept 28.
He said 4.1 million people will receive RM950, 2.7 million people will receive RM350 and another 410,000 will receive RM750 in the BR1M 2015.
"There are three stages of the BR1M payout; the first was carried out on Jan 15 to 5 million recipients followed by Feb 25 to 880,000 recipients. Another 1.4 million recipients will receive their BR1M from March 10 to 13.
“Some concerns were raised by the 1.4 million recipients because there is a delay in the payment. But we would like to clear the air saying that some had made manual applications while some had made late submission, therefore these are the reasons why payment is delayed.
“973,067 application were rejected based on 36 reasons among which includes 310,235 applicants having a household income of more than RM4,000, 214,452 applicants who are single with income of more than RM2,000 and 135,939 students who had received their book vouchers,” he said.
Ahmad added that the rejected applicants have until end of the month to file for an appeal at any of the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) branches by filling up a form and submitting the necessary supporting documents manually.