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PETALING JAYA: As students have to follow their lessons online because of the movement control order, there are concerns that traders are taking advantage of the situation to hike up prices of laptops and printer ink cartridges as demand for such items increased from last month.
Deputy Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Rosol Wahid said as at Feb 5, the ministry received 15 complaints of high prices for printer ink cartridges, laptops and printers.“Out of the complaints we received about the high prices, seven were for laptops, another seven for printer ink cartridges and one for a printer, ” said Rosol.
Our consumer advocacy group Laban Konsyumer Inc. (LKI), reassures the consumers that the group’s mission to protect and ensure consumer welfare will continue in full force in 2021. We will begin 2021 by putting consumer advocacy in the international environment.
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FOMCA, Namlifa: Medical Insurance Price Hike Should Be Deferred From 2021 To 2023
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The Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (FOMCA) has called for the price hike for medical insurance premiums, which is slated to take effect in 2021, to be deferred to 2023 instead. This is because many individuals are still facing financial difficulties following the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The price increase should take effect in 2023. Looking at the recovery rate, the economy is still weak, and it will take time for consumers to be able to fend for their families,” said the president of FOMCA, Datuk Dr Marimuthu Nadason. A price hike for medical insurance premiums had originally been scheduled for 2020, but insurance companies eventually decided to postpone it to 2021 following increasing financial difficulties among Malaysians, caused by the spread of Covid-19.