{"id":629294,"date":"2026-09-19T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629294\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:24:14","slug":"thailand-to-extend-consumer-subsidy-program-to-help-ease-living-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629294\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand to extend consumer subsidy program to help ease living costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20231002t120121z869623465r2897-4364-7030-1789776250.webp\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20231002t120121z869623465r2897-4364-7030-1789776250.webp\" data-original-2x=\"https:\/\/vcdn1-english.vnecdn.net\/2026\/09\/19\/20231002t120121z869623465r2897-4364-7030-1789776250.webp?w=680&amp;h=408&amp;q=100&amp;dpr=2&amp;fit=crop&amp;s=tRwvHtqh8MTPWjlc8cHYwQ\" class=\"vne_lazy_image\" alt=\"Thailand to extend consumer subsidy program to help ease living costs\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nPeople shop at a food trolley in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Reuters\t<\/p>\n<p>Thailand will extend its consumer subsidy program \u200busing 40 billion baht (US$1.20 billion) \u200cremaining from the first phase, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on \u200bFriday.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The first phase covered about 43 million people and \u2060ran from June to September, with participants receiving 1,000 baht (US$30.04) per month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The government subsidized 60% of eligible purchases, capped at 200 baht per person per day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The extension, subject to cabinet approval, is aimed at \u200chelping \u2060ease living costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">&#8220;This is not a populist policy. It is both an economic stimulus policy and a \u2060measure to ease people&#8217;s expenses across the country at a time of \u2060high living costs,&#8221; Anutin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The extension will last two months, \u2060a government spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People shop at a food trolley in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Reuters Thailand will extend its consumer subsidy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,267186],"class_list":["post-629294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-thailand-to-extend-consumer-subsidy-program-to-help-ease-living-costs-vnexpress-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}