{"id":39426,"date":"2025-08-01T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:23:10","slug":"epf-assures-stakeholder-engagement-in-proposed-pension-scheme-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39426\/","title":{"rendered":"EPF assures stakeholder engagement in proposed pension scheme discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA: Any decision on a monthly pension payout scheme for its members will follow thorough engagement with key stakeholders and careful consideration of long-term interests, says the Employees Provident Fund (EPF).<\/p>\n<p>It added that the government\u2019s proposal under the 13th Malaysia Plan (13MP) was currently under review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime, the current EPF rules and withdrawal mechanisms remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny updates will be communicated through official and timely channels once available,\u201d it said in a statement on Friday (Aug 1).<\/p>\n<p>According to the 13MP, which was tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday (July 31), the government was considering introducing a monthly pension payout under the EPF, in addition to the current lump-sum withdrawal option, to provide retirees with a more stable income stream.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PETALING JAYA: Any decision on a monthly pension payout scheme for its members will follow thorough engagement with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27770,45,49,48,7931,28516,133,28517,131,132,19159,208],"class_list":["post-39426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-13mp","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-discussion","tag-epf","tag-finance","tag-monthly-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-proposal","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}