Published by The Star on Wednesday May 26, 2010GEORGE TOWN: The RM100 payment due to 18,000 senior citizens by mid-May has been delayed by a month as the computer system of the state government’s appreciation programme for senior citizens was hacked early this month.
State Welfare, Health, Caring Society and Environment Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh said the affected senior citizens are those who had gone overseas and those whose vouchers were returned by the banks due to technical errors when the money was handed out last month.
“The system has been fixed and the officers in charge are now revising and checking the names of the recipients,” he told a press conference here yesterday.
“Many names were missing from the system but we have a back-up,” he said, adding that it would take time to check the names of the people from all five districts.
“The district officers are all working hard to rectify the matter,” added Phee.
It was reported on April 24 that some 93% of the 82,983 senior citizens who registered for the Penang government’s annual RM100 appreciation reward programme had collected their money.
Phee added that the payment for those who registered between May 1 and July 31 would be made by the end of August.
Asked if he had lodged a police report over the hacking, he said he needed to get the full report before considering the move
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