APRIL 21 — Clearly the Covid-19 movement control order (MCO) has affected everyone; with particularly severe impact on the poor and low income. Loss of jobs and thus incomes, reduced incomes made worse by future uncertainties have had a severe negative impact on consumer financial and overall...
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2020 02:14 PM MYT
To make matters worse, some retailers are manipulating prices and making excessive profits by increasing prices, making the life of the poor even more difficult. Secondly, the one-off aid received is clearly insufficient to meet personal and household basic needs and consumers have to find their own means to raise cash to meet their basic obligations.
Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations thus calls on the government to quickly allow pawnbrokers to resume operations. This would be of some help to the poor during these difficult times.
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