{
  "id": 12320443,
  "title": "Pekerja gig, warga emas perlu perlindungan sosial lebih baik dalam Belanjawan 2027",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/pekerja-gig-warga-emas-perlu-perlindungan-sosial-lebih-baik-dalam",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-06T06:29:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/10/06/pekerja-gig-warga-emas-perlu-perlindungan-sosial-lebih-baik-dalam-belanjawan-2027"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The World Bank has suggested expanding social protection to include gig economy workers, possibly through specific mechanisms of parallel mechanisms from the government. KUALA LUMPUR: Strengthening Malaysia's social protection system must remain a priority in the 2027 budget, including raising benefit adequacy, widening coverage to gig economy workers, and prioritizing support for the elderly population, according to the World Bank. Chief Economist of Malaysia, Apurva Sanghi, said the government has done a good job in expanding and scaling up social assistance programs, but there is still a gap in terms of adequate benefit levels. \"Congratulations to the government for expanding and scaling up social assistance programs to the extent that it has been successful. However, there is an issue of adequacy, i.e., with the benefits that are already in place,\" he said at a media briefing on the World Bank's Eastern and Pacific Asia Timely Economy Report for October 2026. Sanghi said extending protection to potentially include gig economy workers could be considered, possibly through specific mechanisms of parallel mechanisms from the government. Furthermore, Sanghi said Malaysia is a rapidly aging nation, but social protection still does not sufficiently cover the elderly population. He said, many elderly people do not receive adequate support, while stating that a social scoring system without a safety net only covers about four percent of the population aged 60 and above. \"Therefore, the effort to expand and increase the scale of social protection for the elderly population is something that is worth doing,\" he said. However, Sanghi emphasized that this is a proposal put forward during the briefing and is not necessarily going to be accepted or included in the respective budget.",
  "summary": "Bank Dunia berkata kerajaan melakukan tugas dengan baik dalam memperluas dan tingkat skala program bantuan sosial tapi masih wujud jurang dari segi kecukupan manfaat itu.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Pekerja gig, warga emas perlu perlindungan sosial lebih baik dalam Belanjawan 2027",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/pekerja-gig-warga-emas-perlu-perlindungan-sosial-lebih-baik-dalam-12321564",
        "published": "2026-10-06T06:29:04.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}