She said up to January, the Federal Government had allocated RM60.6mil for 175,156 people with disabilities under the handicapped worker's allowance, bedridden patient's aid and unemployed OKU aid schemes nationwide.
She said the participation of OKU in the workforce was also significant as a source of income and as a form of rehabilitation and socialisation. "This registration is not only to get financial or welfare assistance. What is more important here is the data integrity to ensure the needs of the OKU can be used to develop policies, for us to plan and implement improvements, as well as prepare future initiatives for them," she said.
Earlier at the opening of PKR's Beserah community centre, Dr Wan Azizah said she wished to see service centres of elected representatives become one-stop centres that could provide comprehensive services from government agencies.