Sirikanya Criticizes State Welfare Card Screening System

Thairath•Politics•1d ago

Reader Briefing

Sirikanya Tansakul of the People's Party criticized the government's state welfare card screening process for being overly rigid and causing eligible poor people to be excluded.

•Sirikanya Tansakul criticized the state welfare card screening criteria on July 20, 2026.
•The government limited the budget to 42,000 million baht, covering approximately 10 million people.
•The appeal period for the welfare card has been extended to September 20.
•Sirikanya Tansakul proposed a scoring system instead of an all-or-nothing qualification criteria.

Overview

•Sirikanya Tansakul stated that the government's screening criteria are too rigid, causing truly needy people to be omitted from the state welfare card system.
•The government set a budget limit of 42,000 million baht, which supports approximately 10 million people.
•Sirikanya Tansakul argued that using fixed criteria such as vehicle ownership or debt exceeding 100,000 baht fails to account for the complexity of poverty.
•Sirikanya Tansakul proposed that the government adopt a scoring system to more accurately target the poor under limited budget constraints.
•Sirikanya Tansakul described the Thai Chuay Thai Plus project as a poorly planned consolation prize with a short 2-month duration.
•The current system forces citizens to travel and file appeals personally due to inaccurate government data.
•The deadline for filing appeals has been extended to September 20.
•Sirikanya Tansakul warned that extending the appeal deadline will not solve the problem unless the government cleans the data from the Ministry of Finance and other agencies.

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Key Quotes

Sirikanya Tansakul

"messy"

เละเทะ

Sirikanya Tansakul

"consolation prize"

รางวัลปลอบใจ

Key Entities

Person

Sirikanya Tansakul(ศิริกัญญา ตันสกุล)

Deputy Leader of the People's Party.

Organization

People's Party(พรรคประชาชน)

The political party to which Sirikanya Tansakul belongs.

Ministry of Finance(กระทรวงการคลัง)ℹ️

A government agency mentioned as having inaccurate data.

NFE(กศน.)

An agency under the Ministry of Education mentioned as having inaccurate data.

Ministry of Education(กระทรวงศึกษาธิการ)ℹ️

The ministry that oversees the NFE.

Policy

State Welfare Card(บัตรสวัสดิการแห่งรัฐ)

A government welfare program for which Sirikanya Tansakul criticized the screening criteria.

Thai Chuay Thai Plus(ไทยช่วยไทยพลัส)

A project the government prepared for those who did not pass the state welfare card criteria.