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PP attacks changes to welfare card terms

Crowds gather outside Krungthai Bank’s Bang Yai Market branch in Nonthaburi in June seeking help in registering for the new round of state welfare cards. Pattarapong Chatpattarasill

The People's Party (PP) has criticised the government's revised state welfare card criteria, saying the changes reflect poor policy coordination and could exclude vulnerable people from assistance.

Veerayooth Kanchoochat, a party-list MP and chairman of the House committee on economic development, said confusion over eligibility was not solely the responsibility of the Finance Ministry or Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas, but of the cabinet as a whole.

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