Kor. Treasury, 17 Aug.-Mobs invade the Treasury. Oppose cutting old age allowance Hijacking to cut unnecessary expenditures. and find new sources of income to enter the state

Reporters reported that The People's Network for the Welfare State, the Welfare State Network for Equality and Justice (We Fair), and the Four Regions Slum Network. Came to demand and submit a letter opposing the right to cut the old age allowance. for wealthy people after announcement The Ministry of the Interior amended the regulations on the criteria for payment of subsistence allowances. Elderly people of local government organizations, 2023, effective from 12 Aug. 23

crowd issued a public statement that When the economy is not fully recovered The military government still maintains Issuing criteria for paying old age allowances of local government organizations by adding the qualifications of being a non-income or have insufficient income for subsistence as one of the conditions for receiving the welfare allowance for the elderly, even though it has been more than a decade The monthly welfare of the elderly has been advanced. Change from helping the poor to giving rights to everyone. Just be 60 years old and not get welfare. or any other state pension of the same nature

therefore filed a petition: 1. Ministry of Interior To repeal the Ministry of Interior regulations on the criteria for paying old age allowances of local government organizations B.E. 2566 and return to the original regulations. which retains all rights without proof of poverty and cut off the right to receive welfare twice already

2. National Committee on the Elderly must come out to protect the rights of all elderly people not to be deprived of any lower than it used to be By not responding to the criteria for paying the old age allowance of the local government organization, B.E. 2566

3. Ministry of Social Development and Human Security raising the level of changing the living allowance to a universal pension by issuing legislation to support Not using the old age allowance policy according to the cabinet resolution

4. Ministry of Finance Do your part in education, cut unnecessary expenditures. And find new sources of income to enter the state to increase income to complement the welfare provision for the general public, such as studying the possibility of collecting wealth tax, windfall tax, profit tax from stock trading, etc.

5. The new government must push for constitutional amendments to clearly include the welfare state as a universal right in the law. – Thai News Agency

Source: Thai News Agency