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INSANE: Welfare card deadline nears for those missing from databases - The Real Truth

People gather outside Krungthai Bank’s Bang Yai Market branch in Nonthaburi on June 4 seeking help in registering for the new round of state welfare cards. Pattarapong Chatpattarasill

The Finance Ministry has urged low-income people who are missing from state welfare databases to register through local administrative authorities before the June 21 deadline.

Vinit Visessuvanapoom, director of the Fiscal Policy Office and Finance Ministry spokesman, said the government is focusing on helping people who have been left out of existing welfare databases and screening systems operated by the Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.

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