This meatball vendor in Bangkok is participating in the co-payment scheme. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)
All remaining rights to the government’s spending subsidy were snapped up within minutes as people rushed to register on Wednesday morning.
Kulaya Tantitemit, spokeswoman for the Finance Ministry, said the remaining 1.34 million rights from the second phase of last month’s co-payment programme were taken within nine minutes of registration opening at 6am.
Qualified participants can use the subsidy from next Monday until March 31.
As of Monday, about 1.1 million shops and street vendors had joined the co-payment programme.
Under the second-phase co-payment scheme, the government pays half the ost of food, drink and general goods purchases, up to 150 baht a person a day and capped at 3,500 baht per…
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