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Ministers, their deputies’ salaries to go to Covid-19 fund for 3 months: PM

Monies to go to Covid-19-related expenditures, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 31 May 2021 9:54PM

Ministers, their deputies’ salaries to go to Covid-19 fund for 3 months: PM
All ministers and deputy ministers will be not be taking a salary for three months starting June. – SAIRIEN NAFIS/The Vibes pic, May 31, 2021

by A. Azim Idris

KUALA LUMPUR – As a final gesture, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that ministers and deputy ministers will be not be taking a salary for three months starting June.

Their salaries will instead be channelled to the Crisis Trust Fund for Covid-19-related expenditures.

Muhyiddin said this in a special televised announcement hours before the nationwide two-week lockdown. – The Vibes, May 31, 2021

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