Re: "Rivals lay claim to welfare," (BP, Jan 19).
PM's Office Minister Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said that when the state welfare scheme was launched in 2016, we had 7.7 million low-income earners. Today, a total of 19.63 million people have applied for the scheme.
In short, under the Three Ps' watch, the number of low-income earners has soared by 155% over the past six years. In fact, World Bank data shows that we beat only war-torn Myanmar in annual GDP growth in Asean (2021 data; excludes high-income Brunei and Singapore).
