SOSCO Pay Covid Claim

The Social Security Organisation (Socso) has paid out RM186 million in Covid-19 benefit claims to 173,498 workers in the country since 2020 to date involving Act 4 and Act 789 under the Self Employment Social Security Scheme (SKSPS).

As of today, a total of 233,746 applications have been received and 173,498 of them have been approved and the applicants have received payments. For Act 4, payments have been handed over to 158,691 local workers and 13,740 foreign workers involving payments of about RM185 million. Meanwhile, for Act 789, payments were made to 1,067 employees with a payment of about RM1 million.

Earlier, he had officiated the Northern Region Industrial Harmony Symposium held to enhance employer-employee relations in safeguarding the importance of industrial harmony as well as increasing the level of legal compliance.