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Home » News from Thailand » Poor Thai elderly receive higher social assistance benefits
Poor Thai elderly receive higher social assistance benefits
Poor elderly people in Thailand will receive a higher contribution for their living expenses, the monthly allowance will increase from 600 baht to a maximum of 1.500 baht per month. Government spokesman Sansern said that the government wants to help the elderly because of the rising costs.
In order to secure the financing for this, extra budget will be taken from the 'Elderly Fund' and part must come from the possible increase in excise duty on alcohol and tobacco.
The monthly allowance for the elderly goes to ten million elderly people, two million of whom live below the poverty line (less than 100.000 baht per year). This concerns elderly people who have previously applied for or will apply for additional social assistance benefits. Registration for this started on April 3 and will last until May 15.
The government also wants to create 39.000 jobs for the elderly this year. Companies that employ the elderly receive tax deductions in return. The government is also developing a National Savings Fund, construction projects with elderly homes and medical facilities for the elderly.
At the moment, elderly people aged 60+, 70+, 80+, 90+ receive respectively 600, 700, 800, 900 Thb per month.
The 60+ go to a maximum of 1.500 Thb, the people who are 70+, are these people going to get 1.600, so 1.500 + extra 100 is 1.600 and so on?
How will that go with disabled people, who currently receive 800 per month, also to 1.500 + 2 x 100 is 1.000, until they are 60+, then to 1.500?
Nico B
Is 100.000 baht per year the poverty line in Thailand?. I think there are more than 2 million living below the poverty line. 100.000 bath per year is more than 8000 per month many will not earn this.
Be that as it may, it remains minimal for subsistence. It is surprising that so few people beg. Fortunately, family members help each other. It turns out that we as Dutch people live in a welfare state, even though the age has been suspended to 67.
In the Netherlands you quickly pay 40 percent of your income in taxes and social security contributions, which is quite a lot. Most in Thailand barely pay anything at most 7% VAT, a little, and no income tax and no social premies. Yet they receive 'free' money from the Thai government. Raised by a small group of wealthier Thais who do pay income tax. Thailand is actually a welfare state and in the Netherlands we pay for it all ourselves.
I give 10.000 baths to the family every month, the grazy sister lived in a corrugated iron house, I had a house built for her and I delivered groceries every week. School under the guidance of stewardess daughter Huain for four years, including school room rent pocket money 1 million 500.000 baht. dentist for braces 60.000 bath. Never thank you, do you understand now that my life is complete, I'm not a bum I'm 81.+.Look at Facebook Leen. Egberts.and you see a nice guy without bragging.
And don't forget to have a house built twelve years ago for 2 million bath. I don't get it in the old people's home I would have lost more. My girlfriend is a lovely woman but has to drink and play cards and meet Thai friends every day, I don't mind not waking up tomorrow my life is complete.
Greetings from a Dutchman with a big heart Leen. Egbert's. a haguese
Leen Egberts, without your good help they would not have been able to afford a few things. This is known, and even if it is not expressed directly, the recipients know in their hearts that you have done good and remember it. Enjoy your retirement and try to make it comfortable for yourself.
Dear Leen, Your response touches me.
The people you have been and still are so good to will never forget your good deeds. In Thaliland it happens that a thank you cannot be done, but in their hearts they do know that you did and do good.
When you get up tomorrow, seize the day for yourself as far as you can, even if you think your life is complete. The sun will also rise for you here in Thailand tomorrow. If you feel lonely, discuss this with your wife, if you want to change something about her pattern, perhaps making her understand what you need will be an eye opener for her and perhaps she will be willing to think a little more about you.
I wish you all the best.
Sincerely.
Nico B
I thought I read here once that the average annual income of a Thai is about 8.000 thb per month. This would mean that the average is below the poverty line. Seems quite strange to me.
Best regards. Bz
Yes 25 million Thai have less than 5000 baht per month. The official poverty line according to the World Bank is USD 1,90, about 72 baht per day, about 2200 per month. 14 million Thai are around this border.
Average annual income is for the whole country divided by total inhabitants.
The 2 million elderly earn less than 100.000 a year. For example, if you have no income, 0 baht, then you are also in this group. But it is debatable because perhaps the children pay these elderly people and the old people are relatively warm thanks to their parental support. And many do have an income but are in the informal circuit, small self-employed people for example or farmers. And then their income is not known.
That 100.00 baht makes no sense. I think that should be 10.000 bath for the elderly. Typo?
That is not the poverty line, that is just a reasonable average income for Thai 100.000 baht. The poverty line (about 20 million people mainly in the Isaan is 36.000 bath) That is many times less.
I don't know where the editors of this article got their information from.
Here is a very different article about the poverty line in Thailand:
Good news. Extreme poverty has been eradicated in Thailand for the first time in human history. I don't get that from myself, but from the World Bank. Experts from this institute recently predicted that by the end of this year only 9.6 percent of the world's population would have no more than $1.90 a day to eat. Never before have there been so few critters on our planet. Only 702 million. And they don't live in Thailand.
Do the math. Per month of thirty days (an extreme poverty-monger should be entitled to a free day off six times a year) there is $57 disposable income, at the current exchange rate 2.046 baht. The lowest estimates of the average monthly income in Thailand are for the more than 20 million inhabitants of the Isaan: 3000 baht. That is a fat thousand baht above the extreme poverty line of the World Bank. OK, 954 baht for the precise.
It's about time those older people got a little more to eat. But it remains marginal and in my opinion too little to write home about. Of course there is far too little tax coming in to distribute and that is not easily solved with a population that is immediately on the back legs when something is changed by this government. People remain dependent on the children and other family members and their empathic feelings. I have my experiences with income from relatives of my wife and what I experience myself. I know that my wife's cousin, who plays in a mediocre music band on pattaya beach road, earns at least 25.000 baht a month playing music for a few hours about 6 days a week. At the market I know that a stand selling vegetables earns enough money to support three people reasonably well and that it earns at least fifty thousand baths a month. A fish seller who mainly sells shrimp and squid with his market stall earns more than 100.000 baht per month. He has just bought a new truck and has two employees, each earning 500 baht a day. This is a couple who work almost every day and earn about 30.000 baht.