The Keluarga Malaysia child seat subsidy programme (MyCRS) has concluded. MyCRS, which was announced in Budget 2022 to provide subsidised child car seats to the B40 group, ran from March till September this year and received 527,254 applications. From that, 61,957 people received the subsidy and a total of RM8.8 million was disbursed.
The MyCRS subsidy is 50% and the maximum subsidy amount is RM150 for a child seat. The government’s original allocation for the programme was RM30 million for 188,000 recipients, so it looks the programme wasn’t fully subscribed despite best efforts of the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), which even went on tour to educate parents on the importance of child seats, as well as to get more to purchase the subsidised seats with on-the-spot approval.
The Program Jelajah Subsidi MyCRS went to Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Perak and Johor, visiting locations with high concentration of B40 with young children such as government clinics. MIROS and the transport ministry (MoT) also participated in the federal government’s Jelajah Aspirasi Keluarga Malaysia nationwide roadshow, including in Sabah and Sarawak.
“This programme is a responsibility of the government to Keluarga Malaysia to fight for and improve the level of safety of children in vehicles. It also supports businesses and the economic recovery of the country,” said MIROS director-general Datuk Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim, thanking the prime minister, transport minister and MoT for the initiative.
MyCRS was supported by child seat distributors Koopers Distribution, Quinton Baby, Crolla Baby, Little One Group and SNS Products.
Perhaps the B40 group feel that there are more important things to spend their money on, or perhaps affordability is still an issue despite the subsidy. We won’t know, but it’s still great news that there are nearly 62k new child seats on the road now, providing extra safety for the little ones.
We’ve said it many times before – child seats are vital safety equipment, and if you have a limited budget, it should be prioritised over other car options. Watch the video above to learn more.
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The gov is just wasting money to subsidize child seat to gain B40 votes. They won’t appreciate it.
Instead, give them them subsidy for sports rim or fake fibre bonnet. Or a Keluarga Malaysia orange cone for them to chop parking.
62,000 just proved your talking out of your ass.
But 13000000 B40 proved I am right.
13000000 did not apply for it so it proved you wrong as well.
13000000 did not apply because that is not what they wanted. Which part you don’ understand? B40 wants sport rim.
Newme. Don’t pass off your inability to understand basic statistics as random anecdotal information. The data displays those who wanted the child seats and got them, it does not reflect that they wanted something else, no more and no less. Anything beyond that which hurts your ego is a you problem.
Nope. There is no correlation between what you implied with the logic above unless you have conclusive proof such as you sponsoring rims to B40 and taking survey data corroborating as your evidence otherwise you are just making statements without proof which case the 1300000 does not agree nor disagree with your point in that means your statement has no locus standi at all.
In short, you lied out of your arse.
newme. The lack of maturity you put into your comments make me feel like you deserve one of these child seat for yourself. Seriously.
You want to talk about maturity? Maturity is don’t have kids if cannot afford. Are you one of the recipients?
I see little need to talk about maturity when you have no idea what that word means. No it does not mean having kids if cannot afford it, that is a different word which obviously escape your limited vocabulary.
Should subsidize thrm MPV instead. 5 seated car unablw to fix in 4-5 car seats.
Why Penang and Selangor left out? Our children doesn’t deserve safety coz didn’t support katak government????
What to do. The children have to suffer the mistakes of their parents voting the wrong side. Time for children comrades to follow the right path, and return to reeducate their wayward parents.