Ministry to propose free Socso for 2 million B40 housewives

The Human Resources Ministry will propose to the cabinet to provide free Social Security Organisation (Socso) protection for about two million B40 (bottom 40 percent income earner) housewives nationwide.

Human Resources Minister M Saravanan said they saw a need to protect the group who had been affected by the pandemic, especially when husbands could not go out to work.

"However, this will depend on...