{"id":111009,"date":"2025-11-02T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/111009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:36:09","slug":"73-of-lets-go-halves-plus-users-spend-over-6-38-billion-baht-in-first-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/111009\/","title":{"rendered":"73% of \u2018Let\u2019s Go Halves Plus\u2019 users spend over 6.38 billion baht in first three days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance reported that as of 11 p.m. on October 31, 2025, spending under the \u201cLet\u2019s Go Halves Plus\u201d scheme surged sharply, particularly on Friday, payday, when consumer purchasing power was strongest.<\/p>\n<p>On October 31 alone, spending reached 2.31 billion baht, with 9.44 million users making purchases. Over the first three days of the scheme, total accumulated spending hit 6.37 billion baht, comprising 3.22 billion baht spent by consumers and 3.15 billion baht contributed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 43.33 million transactions were recorded across 667,624 participating stores nationwide, with 14.55 million users having already used their benefits \u2014 equivalent to 72.7% of the 20 million eligible participants.<\/p>\n<p>Participants can continue spending through registered merchants until December 31, 2025, between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., using the G-Wallet feature on the \u201cPao Tang\u201d mobile application. Daily spending does not need to reach the full 200-baht limit.<\/p>\n<p>Starting November 7, 2025, users will also be able to use their subsidy through four food delivery platforms \u2014 Grab, Lineman, Shopee, and Robinhood \u2014 which are officially joining the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLet\u2019s Go Halves Plus\u201d initiative expands on the previous \u201cLet\u2019s Go Halves\u201d programme, aiming to boost domestic spending, stimulate the grassroots economy, and support small enterprises and OTOP vendors. The government co-pays for consumer purchases made through the Pao Tang app at participating stores across Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Finance reported that as of 11 p.m. on October 31, 2025, spending under the \u201cLet\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[220,114,5746,72030,184,1980,85,46,5983],"class_list":{"0":"post-111009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-consumer-spending","11":"tag-economic-stimulus","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-finance-ministry","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-lets-go-halves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}