Informal workers must have monetary deposits in a bank account to be eligible for the 3,500-baht financial relief available for a two-month period, says a Finance Ministry source.
The sum of deposits required to be eligible for the financial relief is confidential at this time, according to the source who requested anonymity.
The sum cannot be disclosed because that could lead to circumvention, said the source.
Having cash in deposit accounts was also a criteria for the previous 5,000-baht money transfer scheme that ran from April to June last year.
The government used a budget of around 390 billion baht to provide last year’s monthly stipend scheme, which ran…