FREE: Community leaders collecting the BR1M forms from Miri District Office.
MIRI: Rural folks yet to obtain application forms for the RM500 assistance (BR1M) to households with an income of RM3,000 and below can obtain them from their respective elected representatives.
Inland Revenue Board (IRB) Miri deputy director Anchon Wahab said this is because the board would not be able to send the forms to all those in the rural areas.
“Parliamentarians and members of Dewan Undangan Negeri (state assemblymen) in the rural areas are entrusted to help in distributing the application forms to the rakyat in their respective constituencies,” he said during a briefing on the distribution of the forms at Miri District Office yesterday.
He also said IRB had opened counters in small towns and at district offices to enable those qualified to obtain the forms which are given out free of charge.
Alternatively, he said the forms can also be obtained from the nearest IRB offices or downloaded from IRB website.
Anchon explained that IRB’s role was only to distribute and process the application forms and that they had no hand in the issuance of the aid to eligible recipients.
“Completed forms attached with a photo copy of identity card and salary slip must be submitted to the nearest district or IRB office as soon as possible as the payment is expected to be made in January next year through appointed banks.
“Every application will be scrutinized, including from those who are self-employed and have no pay slips, and those earning more than RM3,000 per month or have luxury cars will automatically be disqualified,” he said.
Those eligible are the head of a family whose monthly household income is RM3,000 and below.
This covers married individuals; single mothers and single fathers with dependents; bachelors and spinsters with dependents and senior citizens (aged 60 and above) living
alone.
However, every married child whose gross household income is RM3,000 and below but living together with his parents is considered as a separate household.
“The household gross income refers to the husband’s salary, wife’s salary and salaries of dependents who are still single,” he said, adding that only the household head is eligible to apply for the aid.
Asked on allegations that the forms were sold at RM5 each in Miri, Anchon said his office had received reports and were investigating them.
Among those attending the briefing were Sibuti MP Ahmad Lai Bujang, political secretary to the Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water, Datuk Sebastian Ting, and community leaders.