Students volunteering for Rela to get fixed allowance, says Home Minister Saifuddin

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 14 — University or college students volunteering with the Rela Corp will begin receiving allowances, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution announced today.

The allowance will not require additional funding, Saifuddin said at his ministry’s monthly assembly here. Instead, the allowances will come from existing allocations for the Home Ministry.

“We don’t want to delay this anymore. We will do our calculations and I think we won’t need any additional funding,” the minister told attendees, including members of the Rela Corp.

The planned fixed stipend will be part of a broader push to provide some form of per diem payment to uniformed volunteers.

Saifuddin said he had raised the proposal with the Finance Ministry, which is set to table the 2027 Federal Budget in three weeks’ time.

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